OH Fracking Waste Transport & Disposal Network including brine haulers, Class II Injection Wells, Landfills, and Wastewater Treatment

OH Fracking Waste Transport & Disposal Network including brine haulers, Class II Injection Wells, Landfills, and Wastewater Treatment.  Brine haulers are weighted in this map by the number of trucks they have registered with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources by way of the Division of Oil & Gas Resources Management's Brine Transportation Registration Application Route Sheet (Examples of these kinds of forms can be found here).  Class II Injection Salt Water Disposal (SWD) Injection wells are weighted by volume of hydraulic fracturing waste disposed of in total between 2010 and Q3-2018.

A complete inventory of Ohio's Active Class II Injection Wells, as well as Ohio Department of Natural Resources certified Underground Injection Control (UIC) certified transporters, is now available in map form on FracTracker.org. There is an interest in mapping Ohio’s waste facility network for many reasons; in addition to concerns regarding the spreading of waste on roads, problems with Class II Injection Wells in Youngstown are forcing the state to turn to secondary disposal options.

Map Layers

In addition to the Class II waste injection wells, the map includes Ohio disposal wells designated for Enhanced Oil Recovery (129), Annular Disposal (82), Salt Water Disposal (221), Temporarily Abandoned Annular Disposal (1,987), and Class II Salt Mining (57).

Active Class II's quarter-mile buffering increments from 0.10 to 1.5 miles. The rings around each well represent 0.1, 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1.0, and 1.5 mile buffers.

Ohio's certified Underground Injection Control certified transporters is a data layer that we collaborated with Teresa Mills to create.
We also present Ohio's various waste transport, processing, and disposal facilities along with their accompanying polygons to give a sense for acreage. The latter polygon layer was a collaboration between FracTracker and an OSU GIS class taught by former PhD student Caleb Gallemore.

The map also shows the locations of current natural gas compressor stations and underground storage tanks, along with the state's hazardous waste and orphaned landfills. These sites were included in response to the Ohio EPA's recent advisory suggesting waste landfill facilities begin accepting drill cuttings, drilling muds and frac sands, and related oilfield fluid.

More recently we have added - in response to the concern about the Warren, OH Patriot Wastewater Treatment Facility's processing of fracking waste - an inventory of Ohio and neighboring states Wastewater Treatment Plants and residential wastewater discharge permitted facilities utilizing data available from the Ohio EPA. We defined neighboring WTP facilities as those that are in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania and in close proximity to or actually within the Ohio River watershed.
We also present Ohio's network of Bulk Transporters, which are charged with transporting related materials.

Class II Data Layout:

This is an updated inventory of Ohio Class II SWD wells that have received fracking waste between 2010 and Q3-2018.
This inventory includes 218+ Class II Wells.  An analysis of these wells and their levels of waste disposal can be found here.