Reply #7: Because the Fed. Government has to step in when crap like this happens

[NickB79]

Due to indiscriminate fracking?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x215030

""It looked like this slime had fallen out of the sky," he said. "I picked up a handful of dirt, and it just squirted all over the place. It was terrifying." The culprit was salt in the river water, which when mixed with clay soils turned the cropland into a soggy mush. Muggli and Montana state regulators believe the high salt content is at least partly the result of deep groundwater extraction by coalbed methane (CBM) operations in neighboring Wyoming -- one of the nation's leading producers of coalbed methane. The water, pumped by the millions of gallons from coal seams to help coax gas to the surface, is then routinely pumped back into the Tongue River and other watersheds by CBM operators, where it indiscriminately mixes with downstream water supplies."