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On April 23, this muddy, claylike substance was photographed on the bank of Marsh Creek Lake as the photographer said it was seeping up from the ground. (Ginny Kerslake)
CHESTER COUNTY, PA The Department of Environmental Protection on Earth Day sent investigators to Marsh Creek Lake to collect samples of an unidentified substance reported on the banks of the lake.
A DEP spokesperson said the department has taken samples of gray muddy clay deposits showing up in Marsh Creek Lake near the site of a more than 8,000-gallon drilling fluid spill into the wetlands in August 2020. Sunoco s Mariner East 2 pipeline construction was halted after the accident, and an effort has been ongoing to reroute the pipeline around the state parklands. Read that report from August 2020 here.
The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending April 2nd indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US rose by 20 billion cubic feet to 1,784 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 235 billion cubic feet, or 11.6% below the 2,019 billion cubic feet that were in storage on April 2nd of last year, and 36 billion cubic feet, or 1.3% below the five-year average of 1,808 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 2nd of April in recent years..the 20 billion cubic feet that were added to US natural gas storage this week was less than the average forecast of a 27 billion cubic foot addition from an S&P Global Platts survey of analysts, and was also less than the 30 billion cubic feet added to natural gas storage during the corresponding week of a year earlier, but was well more than the average addition of 8 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have typically been injected into nat