Twenty households east of Pavillion are getting cisterns for clean drinking water, paid for by the Wyoming Legislature after residents complained that hydraulic fracturing in the area contaminated their water. The water tanks are coming because lawmakers last year set aside $750,000 to supply them. The residents live in a 23-square-mile area east of Pavillion, in the Pavillion gas field. The natural resource policy adviser to Gov. Matt Mead says an investigation is ongoing into whether drilling activities caused the contamination. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently turned its investigation over to the state.
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