Vanlyn Ramsay

For decades, Ohio’s backroads have quietly carried more than just traffic. They’ve carried waste. Since 1985, local governments across the state have filed annual reports with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources documenting how much oil and gas brine was spread on their roads as a deicer or dust suppressant. Each “Annual Surface Application Report

A Historic Vote for Clean Water On October 2, the Marietta City Council passed three major resolutions responding to public concern over injection wells and their threats to drinking water. Among them was a historic resolution asking the state for a three-year moratorium to pause injection well activity within Washington County, Ohio until further study

On Tuesday, September 9, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency held a public meeting in Marietta about a proposed Class I waste injection disposal well. DeepRock Disposal Solutions, LLC submitted the application earlier this year. The site would be just below Bramblewood Heights, about a mile south of the company’s current injection well at State Routes