This Virginia Mercury article discusses the ongoing Potomac aquifer worries that are driving a wave of new laws in Virginia, including a ban on fracking in the Taylorsville Basin.
From banning hydraulic fracturing in the eastern part of the state to restricting the water reserves from which certain wells can draw, lawmakers in both parties and both chambers this session are moving to protect Virginia’s vulnerable Potomac aquifer.
“It’s a significant issue,” Sen. Richard Stuart, R-Stafford, told the Senate Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee Jan. 21. “It is a giant body of freshwater that the seafood industry relies on in the area I represent, and that millions of people rely on for drinking water and a lot of other activities. And if you ruin it, I guess it’s done for ten thousand years.”