Residents claim the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today it would deliver water, but the agency said no decision has been made.
Residents say the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is promising to deliver water to a northeastern Pennsylvania village where a natural gas driller has been accused of tainting water wells with methane and possibly hazardous chemicals.
Homeowners in Dimock Township have been without a reliable supply of clean water since Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., the driller blamed for polluting their aquifer, stopped making daily deliveries more than a month ago.
Three Dimock residents say EPA told them today that it's hiring a private contractor to deliver water to their homes about 20 miles south of the New York state line. EPA, for its part, says no decision has been made.
Cabot won permission from Pennsylvania environmental regulators to stop delivering water to Dimock on Nov. 30. Cabot denies responsibility for the contamination.