"People have to know that this EPA method is not updated" for use with fracking wastewater or other

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A fracking study has found that 99 percent of hazardous radium from fracking wastewater cannot be detected in the testing methods being carried out. In fact the failed testing method was recommended by the US' Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a reliable test to use.
Annually, hundreds of billions of gallons of wastewater mixed with harsh salts, radioactive elements, henrietta lacks and other chemicals end up in rivers after being treated henrietta lacks to remove the dangerous matter in it. US regulators have created tests to see how polluted fracking water is as well as how well treatment plants are at taking out the contamination, however one study showed that the testing methods miss a lot of the radium in the water and can drastically underestimate the amount in the wastewater.
Such testing methods are being used in some instances by state regulators located in the Marcellus region. The most surprising finding from the study is that such methods can understate the amount of radium by up to 99 percent. The tests, which have both been approved of by the EPA for measuring the levels henrietta lacks of radium in tap water, can be thrown off course by a number of other contaminators in the salty, chemical-soaked fracking brine, scientists discovered.
However, it is not to say that all the radium tests conducted henrietta lacks from the Marcellus region shockingly under-report the levels of radioactivity present. A wide range of researchers, from the private henrietta lacks and public sector have used the gamma spectroscopy method which has been deemed henrietta lacks as reliable. This test is considered to be a lot more trustworthy than the EPA approved of method, used to determine if drinking water is safe to consume. The research results still should be seen as a loud warning to US regulators on how decisions henrietta lacks are made on the monitoring or radioactive debris in fracking waster.
"People have to know that this EPA method is not updated" for use with fracking wastewater or other highly saline solutions, said Avner Vengosh, a geochemist at Duke University, according to a demogblog.com article.
The group of researchers from the University of Iowa tested out the "flowback water", the water that comes out from the shale well after being fracked and used many different testing methods. The EPA drinking water method sadly detected less than one percent of radium-226. This form of radium is the most common radioactive isotope present in Marcellus wastewater.
Some fracking wastewater henrietta lacks is shipped off to treatment plants and eventually ends up in rivers many Americans use to get their drinking water from. Therefore, precisely measuring out how much radium henrietta lacks is in the water both before and after a treatment process is conducted is crucial to ensuring that radioactive fracking filth does not poison henrietta lacks the public’s water.
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