Independent Kern County Oil Producer & His Personal Wastewater Injections

Injecting Wastewater Under His Own Estate, Local Oil Producer Says "I Practice What I Preach"  (John COX, The Bakersfield Californian; June 8, 2015)
http://www.bakersfield.com/News/2015/06/08/injecting-wastewater-on-his-own-estate-local-oil-producer-says-i-practice-what-i-preach.html


Excerpt from aforementioned Bakersfield Californian Article...


"According to results from testing performed nearly a year ago by Bakersfield’s Well Analysis Corp., no fluids escaped at depths any shallower than about 2,500 feet underground."


Wastewater Injection into the "Santa Margarita Zone" (From third paragraph of the aforementioned article)  -->   Santa Margarita Geologic Formation 


As stated on page 77 in  "Names and Definitions of Geologic Units of California", Issues 825 - 830; U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1904:

"Named for exposures in Santa Margarita at San Luis Obispo County", the Santa Margarita Formation is "upper Miocene" in age, and composed of "alternating beds of conglomerate and soft sand stone, with several strata of diatomaceous earth and pumice." 
(H. W. FAIRBANKS, 1904)

                                                                                                      
San Joaquin Valley Groundwater Basin; Kern County Subbasin (California DWR, 2006)
http://www.water.ca.gov/groundwater/bulletin118/basindescriptions/5-22.14.pdf

The Story of Ground Water in the San Joaquin Valley, California (USGS, 1964)
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1964/0459/report.pdf






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