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There has been a "dredging machine" operating in Lake Carnegie in front of the boathouse for some weeks, now. It isn't moving, and doesn't appear to be actually dredging. What it seems to be doing is pumping water up to a site near Route One and then the return flow is allowed to flow back into Lake Carnegie.
However, the return flow is whitish in color, smells like petroleum distillates, possibly fracking fluid, and bubbles and froths with "gas," exactly what you would expect with fracking discharge.
The jurisdiction of the lake is Princeton, however the Engineering Department could easily get a response from the state if it is determined that a covert fracking operation is underway in neighboring West Windsor.
The area is the site of three major artesian wells supplying the area with drinking water, and many, many private wells in the neighborhoods between Route One and Princeton Junction.
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Municipality of Princeton <small class="fwn">(Verified Official)</small>
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Reopened Jagtig (Registered User)
I considered that possibility and remember the dredging that occurred back in the Seventies. It was entirely different. The effluent wasn't soapy and smelling of gas, then, and the dredge moved around dragging the pipe with it.
You might want to send someone out to West Windsor to see where the water is being pumped to. I don't want to trespass, or I would go, myself.
The issue should remain open until it is definite that the dredge is moving around and doing what dredges are supposed to do. If it is just supplying water to a covert fracking operation in West Windsor for drilling and whatever, then appropriate action must be taken to protect the area's drinking water supplies.
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