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It's not due to the drilling.

There's always been methane

in the water here.

We grew up on the farm,

on the house down here,

and, you know, my grandfather

drilled a well in 1945.

The day he drilled the well,

there was methane in it.

I'll show you where the well is,

that was drilled in '45.

- What's that?

- That is the well.

- And do you still use it?

- The only thing we use it for

is washing the cars

or watering the garden.

Because it is so red with iron.

It has methane too,

but the methane don't hurt you.

It's the iron turns everything red.

So, what's this then?

This is the second well

that we drilled, in the 70s.

- And what's in that well?

- Methane.

Iron.

Sulfur.

We still use it.

No problems.

But the moratorium

was not going to be the only problem

for the people of Dimock.

Now they were going to be

served with a massive bill

for a pipeline that was

supposed to solve a problem

that they knew did not exist.

The Pennsylvania infrastructure

investment Authority

voted Tuesday

on a controversial project.

They decided to give $12 million

to build a water pipeline

between Montrose and Dimock.

It was a fiat, it was simply,

"This is what we are going to do".

We reacted in anger.

We were citizens of this community,

and you don't expect to have

$12 million of the state's money

committed to a project that

may or may not make any sense,

that hasn't been researched,

that alternatives haven't

been considered for.

So we all got together and formed

a group called "Enough Already"

because we had

had enough already.

It was just a group of

people that got together

and said, "Look, this is ridiculous."

We've had enough. Enough already.

After we had a couple

of meetings,

we decided to get a petition around

and have everybody sign it.

We had over 1,500 signatures.

The water line issue has split this

tiny rural Susquehanna County town,

and quite literally.

- ...you!

- We had to do something.

We just didn't like being

trashed all the time.

Dimock is not a wasteland,

it's not a gasland.

It's not a ghost town.

We're tired of getting

on the internet

and reading blogs where

people are just lying, saying,

"I drove into Dimock

and I immediately got sick

from breathing the air."

We have been the victims

of a continual deluge

of completely inaccurate reporting

about the condition of

the water in this community.

It seemed the voices

of the ordinary people in Dimock

who were saying their water was fine

weren't being heard.

It wasn't hard to see why.

Josh Fox was getting huge support

from Hollywood celebrities.

Some even came to Dimock.

Dimock, we made it,

we're here, we come in love.

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