Hardrock Excavating is one of several (over a dozen) oil and gas drilling-related companies Ben Lupo owns in the Youngstown area. It houses 58 20,000-gallon storage tanks.
He's been poisoning the waters of Ohio and Pennsylvania for nigh onto TWENTY YEARS!
http://www.shalereporter.com/blog/kimberley_sirk/article_1a31f014-7c4f-11e2-b1e7-0019bb30f31a.html#user-comment-area
What's more, the Youngstown Vindicator has paid attention to Lupo's misadventures for quite some time. Seems as though Lupo has a history of disposing of his company's waste in public waterways. The list of rivers and creeks reads like a map of the eastern edge of Ohio and Western Pennsylvania: Lupo's companies have been accused of sullying not only the Mahoning, but the Beaver River, and the Meander, Mill and Eagle creeks.
Not only are the chemicals that Lupo's crews have dumped in the past contain bromide, but when water goes into a public water treatment system, it's treated with chlorine, which doesn't play well with bromide. Think carcinogenic .
Lupo's hijinks not only endanger every person or animal that drinks water from the rivers and streams that he's allegedly ordered his workers to pollute, but he endangers those workers as well. As was shown in an excellent piece of reporting by Rachel Morgan in Shale Reporter, workers who transport fracking waste can experience drastic and wide-ranging health conditions from handling the stuff.
But perhaps what surprised me the most was a quote the Vindicator repeated in the Sunday story that's linked above. In 1994, Lupo got into trouble for burying dirt that was laced with brine in Warren, Ohio. He claimed at the time that drilling waste was benign.
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