Show You Get to S Salt It Water At Oklahoma Oil Fields Field From many of the prairies of at In Inland inland In land Oklahoma its it's less lell than a mileto mile to salt nit water That's That because talt aalt water lies lIel directly below the rich oil fields As AI an unwelcome byproduct of ot barrels of ot petroleum there were barrels barrel of ot brine That's That enough salt nit water experts expert sa say to cover acres acrea six Inches deep with dr dry salt talt Formerly this brine was wai allowed to drain down natural water watercourses courses coursel Devastation followed Towns dependent upon rivers riven for their water supply got a brackish and unhealthful fluid Trees Treel and crops trop along the streams dream withered and died Live stock tock perished Then the state slate stepped in three years ago to halt further losses loue The big companies plagued by damage suits for millions of dollars were glad to co cooperate Engineers began putting the water water wa ter back under ground Toda Today 30 disposal systems are pumping ISO ISO- barrels barrell of brine dally daily into the earth In terms of dry salt that's that pounds a day The oil companies paid the entire cost of at the systems aided in n technical phases of ot the Installations installations lions by the pollution department f el f the state division of water re reo sources The disposal systems are relatively relative relative- ly Iy y simple A separator at or near the he well cuts the brine away from the he petroleum Gravity lines carry the he brine to a a treating plant at the downhill end of the fields These chemicals are added to coagulate the he solids and the brine is run through a series of filters to take takeout takeout takeout out impurities which might clog the permeable ble sands to feet below below below be be- low the surface Into which it is pumped Oil OU mens men's luck gave a fillip to construction construction con con- of at a disposal system stem by byone byone byone one petroleum company in Pontotoc county At the lower end of the field In territory believed to be bedry bedry bedry dry drillers struck a 2600 2000 barrel barrel- per per day day gusher and had to move over a quarter mile before completing ing a successful dry hole |