#FrackTrackerShine light on fracking data in CA

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The Problem

Fracking in California is unregulated, leaving it up to well owners to report accurate data. There are 1,509 known wells, and probably many more that remain undocumented.

Some wells exist on or near seismic faults, while others exist on or near porous, vulnerable groundwater aquifers.

The SolutionUse FrackTracker to find wells near you, rate their safety relative to other wells, and take action for greater transparency and responsibility.

Chemical Disclosure

Production Data

Permitting Data

Violations Data

Overall Grade

California

Texas

Colorado

Pennsylvania

North Dakota

SCORECARD: STATE TRANSPARENCY &

OVERSIGHT

Criteria (letter grades):● How often is data reported?● How accessible/centralized are the

data?● Is there an active alert system?● What penalties do energy companies

face for not reporting?● Where is the data?● HOW CAN YOU IMPROVE THE DATA?

DATA WE HAVE:● map of vulnerable groundwater (SWRCB)● fracking well data (SWRCB)● timeseries data of groundwater levels (DWR)

DATA WE WANT:● timeseries data for water quality (SWRCB)● PDFs of chemicals used in fracking (FracFocus)● Assortment of supplemental data (list)

https://github.com/NewCaliforniaWaterAtlas

Map in progress: All California Groundwater (30yrs.)

Map in progress: Fracking and Vulnerable Groundwater

PDFs: Need to be scraped and parsed into a table

What can you do?

How to Help?

1. Teaching citizens how to keep tabs on what’s going on near them.

2. Submit critical data.

How are we doing?How much data have we collected?What have we discovered?

What are improvements to our state FrackTracking score since we started?

For improving Fracking Data in our state

FracktrackerShine light on fracking data in California

#TechRaking Team:

Agustin ArmendarizChacha SikesDaniel McGlynLaci VidemskyScott DesrowStephen Stock

Matthew GreenMichael StollNathaniel Lash Pamela BehrsinScot HackerSerdar TumgorenVinnee Tong

Water Rights: Surface Water Diversions

New California Water AtlasMaking water understandable in California

http://ca.statewater.orginfo@statewater.org@CAWaterAtlas #cawater

Project Directors:

Chach Sikes Strategy@chachasikes

Laci VidemskyResearch@videmsky