Water Contamination

August 6, 2025

Fracking in the Delaware River Basin Will Put NJ’s Drinking Water at Risk

New Jersey Water from the Delaware River
Over half of New Jersey’s population is dependent on drinking water from the Delaware River Basin.
The DRBC ban on fracking must remain in place!

Much of the drinking water used in New …

August 5, 2025

Pledge to Defend The Delaware River Frack Ban

Physicians for Social Responsibility PA calls on the Delaware River Basin Commission to uphold the frack ban


DCS and the Delaware River Frack Ban Coalition Launch New Campaign – A Citizen’s Pledge to Defend the Delaware River Frack Ban

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July 8, 2025

Frack, Crack, Boom, Bang at the DVAA

Since its inception in 2008, DCS has publicized what happens to people and communities located near frack wells and associated infrastructure (see the DCS informational posters). The Academy Award nominee film Gasland, by Josh Fox, is dedicated to

June 28, 2025

Five Years After Pennsylvania’s Landmark Fracking Report, Its Public Health Goals Remain Largely Unmet, Groups Say

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here.

A grand jury convened by Josh Shapiro, then attorney general and now

July 13, 2024

3 Farmers, 2 Generations, 1 Perspective

If there is going to be food, then water must be protected!


Three Sullivan County farmers gave public comments at the June 5 DRBC meeting in Narrowsburg, NY: Wes Gillingham, Iris Fen Gillingham and Eugene Thalmann. All three spoke of …

December 2, 2022

As Evidence Mounts, New Concerns About Fracking and Health

A growing number of studies are pointing to a link between hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and health problems.
By Jon Hurdle, Yale Environment 360, November 17, 2022

This bears out what DCS has been saying since our inception in 2008: Fracking

December 1, 2022

Tell DRBC Before Dec. 7 Meeting: NO Frack Waste in the Basin

Tell the DRBC before their December 7 Business Meeting: Vote for a COMPLETE ban on fracking! That means NO Importation of Frack Wastewater and NO Exportation of Water from the Delaware River Watershed for Fracking!


Register to attend the meeting

November 18, 2022

The EPA Must Act to Protect Us from Chemical Pollutants

In September, a coalition of Scientists, Activists, and Families, called SAFE, traveled to DC to call out the EPA:

STOP working for corporations and start working for people!
CHEMICALS are polluting our water, air, and soil, and making us sick.…

September 21, 2022

Tell DRBC NO Frack Waste

Our clean drinking water is at risk! Sign this petition telling the DRBC to BAN the import of toxic frack waste into the Delaware River Basin.

New York City’s award winning, wonderful tap water is imperiled by the Delaware River …

August 6, 2022

In Honor and Memory of Randy Moyers

Dear Damascus,

“Halliburton n’at is trying to train all these kids in the schools around here. Are you getting kicked in the head or what? Wake up! Hello! Come in! That’s not a job, that’s a death camp.”

– Randy

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