Thirty-eight of Ohio’s 88 counties are licensed to accept drilling waste liquids for disposal in injection wells. Here are the volumes deposited in each county in 2012. (Each barrel represents 42 gallons):
County Barrels
Ashtabula 1,361,981
Athens 147,116
Auglaize 13,594
Belmont 144,448
Brown 0
Carroll 167,302
Coshocton 213,733
Erie 25,127
Fulton 0
Gallia 131,813
Geauga 23,888
Guernsey 736,045
Henry 0
Hocking 105,299
Holmes 270,362
Knox 326,083
Lake 35,800
Licking 289,307
Lorain 41,133
Mahoning 138,737
Medina 1,560
Meigs 93,415
Morgan 435,148
Morrow 479,128
Muskingum 263,691
Noble 931,379
Perry 296,096
Pickawa 282,701
Portage 2,358,371
Seneca 4,820
Stark 772,347
Summit 66,385
Trumbull 1,369,815
Tuscarawas 365,263
Vinton 101,700
Washington 2,022,320
Wayne 96,533
Wyandot 48,987