Re: [PLOTS] Texas: impending fracking site + mesh network: seeking tools for pre and post testing
Liz Barry
--I'm on 40 acres in Texas, (fracking's wild west) with no current fracking activity (though the area is already a pincushion). My neighbor's land is the site of a large fracking operation in process, to be finished by December 2014. It will go just outside and all along my back property line. So there is little time between discovering this operation is in progress and getting ready to document it.
I have built and deployed a low power, standalone Zigbee mesh network for other purposes to track events in this landscape. This presents me with an opportunity to use it to test before and after the drilling and extraction begins. I've been researching possibilities, and am open to working with those who have water, air, seismic, and other systems developed that could be deployed in remote areas with no electricity, that would work with or alongside the Zigbee mesh. I am running the network for 24 hours at a stretch on battery power. I have no funding for this project.
Thanks for the spectrography development, this looks to be an immediate addition. I would also be interested in sharing data with those who might have compatible tools ready to deploy.
Oh, and it's located in a floodplain, which is "legal" here. Here's a pic that shows the construction during a smallish flood.
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Sue Ellen Lyons
Hello,
This is my first post to this site, and I've been following the other posts with interest. I teach AP & Honors Environmental Science and am interested in having knowledgeable people speak to my students about what the group is doing to research coastal issues/restoration efforts and fracking. If any of you are interested in helping out with this, please let me know. Teaching them the factual base is easy, but having them understand how scientists "know what they know" and conduct research is very important. We can even manage a small honorarium or donation to the organization for your efforts.
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Sue Ellen
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Stevie Lewis
LaFayette, Carol
Nice to meet you. We are at the top, skinny end of Eagleford, but there are other layers people are selling. Some landowners put these layers in different leases, so it’s possible to frack by more than one company from the same operation, as is happening with this one.
Any analog or digital transducer will work with the mesh network, but need calibrating and testing, and I’m not sure how long it would take to get reliable results from scratch. I’m hoping those who might already have such systems might lend some advice.
Thanks for the list. I’ll be exploring and will keep in touch!
Carol
LaFayette, Carol
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