Pennsylvania DEP’s Underground Injection Control Data Flow

Pennsylvania DEP’sUnderground Injection

Control Data Flow

May 31, 2012Jen Gumert, PA DEP

Underground Injection Control Data Flow

• What is Underground Injection Control?• Why PADEP selected the UIC Data Flow• Designing and Developing the Process• Challenges

What is Underground Injection Control ?

The Underground Injection Control Program:

regulates the construction of,permits,inspects,identifies violations,

tracks enforcements, and tracks closures

of injection wells that place fluids underground for storage or disposal.


5 Types of Underground Injection Control:

Class 1: (none in PA) Below DW Source

Class 2: OG Brines and Fluids injected below DW Source

Class 3: Hazardous Waste injected into or above (OUTLAWED)

Class 4: RCRA or CERCLA cleanup

Class 5: Anything built to receive water waters including recovery of water from creeks


EPA Region 3 is primacy of the Underground Injection Control Program in Pennsylvania.

Historically, UIC data has been shared with DEP on an ad hoc basis, through email, when needed by various programs. The manual process of acquiring and loading this data is time and labor intensive.

This effort will automate the receipt and processing of UIC data to make it routinely available to PA’s Oil and Gas and Water Programs through their GIS and Ad Hoc Tools

Why PADEP Selected the UIC Data Flow


How Data Could be Used Tools

To assess risk and impacts to Public Water Supply Locations and Groundwater

Shapefiles via location information

To identify Class 2 Wells in Wellhead Protection areas


To identify Class 5 Locations for Groundwater Protection


Integrate with existing well data for Permit assessments

Ad Hoc reporting (through API ID)

Renewed interest in Class 2 wells and how they integrate with other Oil Gas information

Ad Hoc reporting (through API Id)

Benefits of PADEP UIC Dataflow

•Automate the flow of this data to DEP programs in order to provide more timely access for:

– Risk assessment and potential sources of contamination

– Aid in ground water contaminant investigations– Aid to track where Marcellus frack water originated– Aid in identifying potential responsible parties of

contaminations of water supplies– Aid in permit assessments (potential violators, large

volume injectors)


Designing and Developing the UIC Dataflow

•Obtain TEST XML File from EPA Region 3•Create Staging and ODS Tables•Create ETL Process•Identify Data Quality Issues•Provide access to GIS and Ad Hoc Tools

– Create GIS Layers– Create Ad Hoc Objects


• Obtain TEST XML File from Region 3• Create Staging and ODS Tables• Create ETL Process• Identify Data Quality Issues• Provide access to GIS and Ad Hoc Tools

– Create Ad Hoc Objects– Create GIS Layers


•Facility•Facility

•Well•Well

•Violation•Violation

•Response•Response•Enforcement•Enforcement•MI Test•MI Test

•Geology•(Class I, and deep

wells only)

•Geology•(Class I, and deep

wells only)

•Engineering•(Class I, and deep

wells only)

•Engineering•(Class I, and deep

wells only)

•Waste•(Class I only)

•Waste•(Class I only)

•Constituent•(Class I only)

•Constituent•(Class I only)

•Permit•Permit •Permit Activity•Permit Activity

•Well Status•Well Status

•Location•Location

•Inspection•Inspection

•Contact•Contact

•Correction•Correction

•Well Type•Well Type

National UIC Database



– Create Ad Hoc Access– Create GIS Layers



– Create Ad Hoc Objects– Create GIS Layers

Program Specific Business Area

Provide Access to Ad Hoc and GIS Tools

PADEP Reporting Objects

DrillingDrilling

PADEP_WellLocationGeologyContactWell TypeWell StatusAPI Id


PADEP ViolationPADEP Violation

PADEP Enforcement

PADEP Enforcement

PADEPOwner/OperatorPADEPOwner/Operator

PermitPermit

PADEP InspectionPADEP Inspection

UIC Business Area



UIC_FacilityUIC_Facility

UIC_Well Location Geology Contact

Well Type Well Status

API Id



API Id

UIC_ViolationUIC_Violation

UIC_EnforcementUIC_Enforcement

Class I•Constituent•Waste•Engineering


UIC_Permit•Permit Activity



UIC_InspectionUIC_Inspection

UIC_MI_TestUIC_MI_Test

DrillingDrilling




PADEP Enforcement

PADEP Enforcement


PermitPermit


UIC Business Area



UIC_FacilityUIC_Facility



API Id



API Id

UIC_ViolationUIC_Violation

UIC_EnforcementUIC_Enforcement






UIC_InspectionUIC_Inspection

UIC_MI_TestUIC_MI_Test

DrillingDrilling




PADEP Enforcement

PADEP Enforcement


PermitPermit



Data Access through Ad Hoc Tool

Oracle DISCOVERER

Data Integration through API Id

State Ids

Visual Access and Integration

Location Data and GIS Tools


Wells DrilledWells Permitted Jan – Feb 2012

Wells Permitted Jan – Feb 2012



UIC and WellHead Protection Areas


UIC and Community Water Systems

Challenges and Recommendations

• Refresh Process – Incremental or Full• Source of Data• Data Quality• Data Integration

Questions

PADEP Exchange Node Team

Jen Gumert [email protected]

Narendra Mehta [email protected]

Darryl Ragantesi [email protected]

Sanjay Shah [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]




Documents

Pennsylvania DEP’s Underground Injection Control Data Flow