State Police Carry Out Crackdown on Marcellus Haulers
Washington PA Observer Reporter
23 June 2010
State police pulled 57 wastewater hauling trucks in Southwestern
Pennsylvania off the road last week in a crackdown on heavy vehicles
used by the Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling industry.
Members of Troop B in Washington, Greene, Fayette and Allegheny
counties also issued 241 citations while inspecting 227 trucks in those
counties, state police announced Wednesday.
“The process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, requires significant
amounts of water to be delivered to the sites and later trucked away,”
state police Commissioner Frank E. Pawlowski stated in a news release.
Across the state, police placed 250 commercial vehicles out of service
while carrying out 1,137 inspections June 14-16 in what was called
FracNET.