During hydraulic fracturing, a “mechanical failure” occurred causing a blowout. Since Wednesday, oil, methane and the fracking chemical cocktail have been spewing out of the well.
Helms said monitoring wells will be drilled to check for groundwater contamination.
“If it’s a lot of contamination we’ll know tomorrow, but if it’s really low levels that’s got to go through the state laboratory, and that can take several days to get those results,” Helms said.
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