Salt & Chlorides In Trinity Aquifer. Hello? Barnett Shale? Hydraulic Fracture?

I wonder how all those “dissolved solids and chlorides” got in the Trinity Aquifer?

Salty water leaves sour taste for Artesia residents

Kirl said the water tastes bad and has a pungent odor, so her family is buying its drinking water in big jugs. “We don’t even give it to our dogs,” she said. “We give them bottled water.”

Kristen Guilford showed us her cat’s water dish, pointing out the tap water salt residue lining the bottom.

“To make tea, you have to either use bottled water or boil it for a long time to get a lot of the chemical taste out of it — even something simple like tea,” Guilford said.

Recon it could have been all that precisely imprecise Hydraulic Fracturing? Naw, it’s too precise except for when it’s imprecise.

I wonder if there are any of those safe injection/disposal wells–that never fail except when they do–around there?

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