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Water Deliveries Stop For Westmoreland County Family

A drilling company that delivered drinking water to a Westmoreland County family for more than three years has stopped, according to the Tribune-Review.

For more than three years, Walter Sowa says a natural gas company told him not to drink his well water after it drilled near his Westmoreland County home.
“The water was so bad, they said not to wash my hands in it or use it for anything,” recalled Sowa, 60, of Sewickley Township.
Now, according to Sowa, Atlas Energy LP is telling him the water is OK to use again — and stopped trucking clean water to his home for free more than two weeks ago.
“I do not want to use that (water),” Sowa said. “I don’t even let my dogs drink it.”
Brian Begley, Atlas Energy’s vice president of investor relations, said the company tested the water and believes it is safe enough to consume.
“We feel like this is something that has improved substantially over time,” he said.

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