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According to Kevin Lynn, communications director for Linde Corp., rail traffic to the Carbondale Transload Facility on Enterprise Dr. (former D&H railroad yards) will increase from 255 cars to 500.
What’s being unloaded there? Four major materials for the fracking process at Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling sites in Northeastern Pa.
What are they? Mineral base oil; fracking sand; barhite; and swamp matts.
What happens at the transload facility? Materials are delivered by rail and stored at the facility. Trucks pick them up and take them to drilling sites. Also, tank trucks are being loaded with water there at a rate of 905,000 gallons a day pumped from the Lackawanna River through pipes that run under the roadway from the river to the transload facility.
How is the water used? At the drilling site, the water is used in conjuction with the mineral oil, fracking sand and barhite in the drilling process. The swamp mattes are similar to wood railroad ties and used as roadbed from trucks at the drilling site.
According to Kevin Lynn, communications director for Linde Corp., rail traffic to the Carbondale Transload Facility on Enterprise Dr. (former D&H railroad yards) will increase from 255 cars to 500.
What’s being unloaded there? Four major materials for the fracking process at Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling sites in Northeastern Pa.
What are they? Mineral base oil; fracking sand; barhite; and swamp matts.
What happens at the transload facility? Materials are delivered by rail and stored at the facility. Trucks pick them up and take them to drilling sites. Also, tank trucks are being loaded with water there at a rate of 905,000 gallons a day pumped from the Lackawanna River through pipes that run under the roadway from the river to the transload facility.
How is the water used? At the drilling site, the water is used in conjuction with the mineral oil, fracking sand and barhite in the drilling process. The swamp mattes are similar to wood railroad ties and used as roadbed from trucks at the drilling site.
