the problem of horizontal hydrofracking is out of control

DEar Ms. Enck,
I general, I applaud the efforts of the epa to protect our
environment.Without you folks, we would be worse off than we already
are. I know you too are facing opposition from members of the government
who are in league with the gas industry and like them are blinded by
the profits allegedly to be made. But the problem of horizontal
hydrofracking is out of control.I urge you and your staff to read and
heed the facts in Ian Urbina's articles about it in the New York Times
throughout the months of March and April. Urbina just came out with a
fourth one on April 7. The drillers in Pennsylvania have been
flagrantly breaking the laws protecting the environment. Pollutants in
Pennsylvania's water are hundreds and even thousands of percent of the
legal limits. Violations of EPA regulations from decades ago have not
yet been corrected. And existing laws do not even mention radionuclides
whose presence was not even envisioned when those laws were written but
they are there in the sludge now. Please allow 30 days of public comment
in New York State on these issues so that industry and the government
can be forced to acknowledge these violations and prevent future
ones.There seems to be no good way to dispose of the wastewater from
fracking. But its sludge left over in the pitifully inadequate
wastewater treatment plants should certainly not be spread on fields as
fertilizer as is happening now.It will end up in our crops. Thank you
for your attention.
Carol K