A public forum in Iraan recently gave landowners in west Texas an opportunity to hear about treatment and use of produced water from oil and gas operations. Nearly 100 people attended the town hall Oct. 2 at Iraan Civic Center. The hosts were Friends of the Pecos River and the Texas Produced Water Consortium.
“There’s been a lot of work over the past few years to better understand what treatment opportunities exist, what reuse opportunities exist, and what the risks are,” Christy Muse, executive director of Friends of the Pecos River, said. “We felt like there really hadn’t been a lot of opportunity for local people and landowners to learn about this.”
Representatives of Texas Produced Water Consortium presented information on options for treatment and reuse. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is reviewing multiple applications for treated produced water discharges in the Pecos River watershed.
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