Managing Oil & Gas Pits and Impoundments
Adam Peltz, Attorney December 17, 2015
“I'll take an oil spill nine times out of 10 over a production water spill. You have long-term impacts that are really difficult to remediate.”
David GlattNorth Dakota Environmental Health Section Chief
A Case for Waste Management Now• Scale: over 800 billion gallons of
wastewater generated per year
• With more reuse and recycling of produced water:• Changing storage practices• Wastewater stored at larger
facilities, for longer durations, at more locations
• More data and better rules and practices needed to reduce frequency, severity of wastewater storage leaks and spills Vegetation killed as a result of
oil and gas wastewater spill
Attributes for Pits and Impoundments• Siting considerations
(100-year flood plain boundary, proximity to drinking water sources, separation from groundwater, surrounding land use)
• Design, construction, and operation requirements(liners, leak detection, freeboard, fluid level monitoring, spill prevention, operator inspection and maintenance)
• Closure requirements (timing, disposition of fluids and solids, and site restoration)
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