Fracking Near Devils Hole Creek

[salmo]

Last month I fished Devils Hole Creek in the Game lands. I thought I noticed a fairly strong smell of methane on the lower section before the ruins. Has there been drilling for natural gas in that area?

 

[troutbert]

That's not the region at all where fracking is taking place.

https://www.fractracker.org/map/us/pennsylvania/

 

[salvelinus]

Methane is odorless until other compounds like thiols are added for easier detection. If you could smell it someone would have had a bad leak somewhere in the area. Kaboom!

 

[troutbert]

What you smelled could be from a gas line leak.

Or it could be hydrogen sulfide occurring naturally in wetlands.

 

[k-bob]

fwiw, part of the upper devils hole drainage that is not in an sgl tract is open space land preserved by a township... walked it once, gets swampy.

 

[moon1284]

As salvaneous said methane is odorless. Mercaptin is added to natural gas and that is what you smell.

 

[Bamboozle]

Is there a Mexican restaurant nearby... ;-)

 

[greenghost]

If you were in a marshy area it could have been hydrogen sulfide (swamp gas). It has a strong odor like rotten eggs.