Marcellus Gas Information

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The Cambria County Conservation District conducted a series of presentations from December 2010 to June 2011 regarding Marcellus Natural Gas Well Drilling. Our intention is to educate our communities and provide you with information to make the best possible decisions for your families, your land, your water, your livelihood and surrounding wildlife.

Below please find a list of websites that provide information and additional educational presentations, workshops and/or webinars regarding Marcellus Shale. Also there is a list of laboratories that conduct water testing. This is not a complete list so if you do not see your town listed, please call the CCCD at 814-472-2120 or the Penn State Cooperative Extension Office 814-472-7986 for additional labs in your area.

Chain of Custody Water Testing

Altoona, PA

Fairway Laboratories

Altoona, PA

Mountain Research, LLC

Clearfield, PA

Hess & Fisher Engineers, Inc.

Curwensville, PA

Mahaffey Laboratory

Indiana, PA

Environmental Service Laboratories

New Castle, PA

Environmental Laboratory Services, Inc

Somerset, PA

Geochemical Testing

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PA DEP-Marcellus Shale

PSU Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research

The Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research (MCOR) is Penn State's education and research initiative on unconventional gas plays. We serve state agencies, elected and appointed officials, communities, landowners, industry, environmental groups and other stakeholders. We are committed to expanding research capabilities on technical aspects of developing this resource and to providing science-based programming while protecting the Commonwealth's water resources, forests and transportation infrastructure.

Penn State Cooperative Extension Office

Marcellus shale has the potential to affect many parts of Pennsylvania. Since 2001, we have been actively helping citizens, landowners, businesses, local governments, and others understand the opportunities and challenges arising from Marcellus shale. Let us help you, too.

TerrAqua Resource Management

TerrAqua Resource Management (TARM) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Larson Design Group (LDG) that offers water resource management services that support exploration and development in the Marcellus Shale play. TARM’s services include the sale of fresh water and treatment of generated waters for recycling and reuse. Because of its relationship with LDG, TARM’s operations are engineering-driven, focusing on high environmental compliance and occupational safety.

Univ of Pittsburgh Center for Healthy Enviroments and Communities

Our mission is to improve environmental health in Western Pennsylvania through community-based research. We take a community-based approach to analyze the social, economic, political, policy, behavioral and geographical variables associated with environmental health issues, as well as the traditional physical-chemical aspects of local environmental health problems.