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Environ Sci Technol. 2022 Jan 04; doi: 10.1021/acs.est.1c05081. Epub 2022 Jan 04.

Assessing Unconventional Oil and Gas Exposure in the Appalachian Basin: Comparison of Exposure Surrogates and Residential Drinking Water Measurements.

Environmental science & technology

Cassandra J Clark, Boya Xiong, Mario A Soriano, Kristina Gutchess, Helen G Siegel, Emma C Ryan, Nicholaus P Johnson, Kelsie Cassell, Elise G Elliott, Yunpo Li, Austin J Cox, Nicolette Bugher, Lukas Glist, Rebecca J Brenneis, Keli M Sorrentino, Julie Plano, Xiaomei Ma, Joshua L Warren, Desiree L Plata, James E Saiers, Nicole C Deziel

Affiliations

  1. Yale School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, 60 College Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, United States.
  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Parsons Laboratory, 15 Vassar Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.
  3. University of Minnesota, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geo-Engineering, 500 Pillsbury Dr. SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States.
  4. Yale School of the Environment, 195 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, United States.
  5. Tufts University, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, 136 Harrison Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, United States.
  6. Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, 60 College Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, United States.
  7. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
  8. Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States.
  9. Center for Perinatal, Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology, Yale University Schools of Public Health and Medicine, 1 Church Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, United States.
  10. Yale School of Public Health, Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, 60 College Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, United States.
  11. Yale School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, 60 College Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, United States.

PMID: 34982938 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c05081

Abstract

Health studies report associations between metrics of residential proximity to unconventional oil and gas (UOG) development and adverse health endpoints. We investigated whether exposure through household groundwater is captured by existing metrics and a newly developed metric incorporating groundwater flow paths. We compared metrics with detection frequencies/concentrations of 64 organic and inorganic UOG-related chemicals/groups in residential groundwater from 255 homes (Pennsylvania

Keywords: drinking water; exposure assessment; fracking; spatial metrics; spatial surrogates; unconventional oil and gas development

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