>>12610987No, fracking happens far below the water table. What does contaminate ground water are broken well casing. Old abandoned wells decay and remaining petroleum products leak through the walls of the well casings into the ground water. During the early days of fracking they'd reopen these old wells and extract petroleum. In situations where there were cracked well casings (basically the part of the well that goes through the water table), this activity did result in additional contamination of ground water.
These days the first thing that happens when fracking a well is to repair or replace the old well casing. This results in a better situation than when the old wells were abandoned. If a well near you is being fracked, you're in a better situation since the decades old well casing is now repaired or replaced. No one skips fixing well casings, not only because the huge fines and court damages awarded from doing so but also because a cracked well casing is a danger to the well itself. The oil company can losing millions of dollars in equipment or even lose the ability to extract from the well entirely if the well casing collapses.
