Showing posts with label xylene. Show all posts
Showing posts with label xylene. Show all posts

Monday, October 12, 2009

Fears of tainted water well up in western Colorado

October 11, 2009 - Denverpost.com - Ned Prather can't forget that awful drink of water.

Tests would show the water from a spring he has drank from for decades was heavily contaminated with a carcinogenic and nervous system-damaging chemical stew known as BTEX — benzene, toluene, ethylbenzine and xylene. BTEX and other volatile organic compounds come to the surface in the production water from oil and gas wells.

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