Intra-abdominal pain is also known as stomach pain, stomachache, bellyache and abdominal cramps. Abdominal pain can be from abdominal wall or intra-abdominal organs. Intra-abdominal pain is not an abdominal wall pain. The abdomen is the section of body between chest and pelvis. Intensity of intra-abdominal pain is mild to severe and duration can be short (acute) or long (chronic). Some intra-abdominal pain may be present for days, weeks or months.
The average well is up to 8,000 feet deep. The depth of drinking water aquifers is about 1,000 feet. The problems typically stem from poor cement well casings that leak natural gas as well as fracking fluid into water wells.
What is Fracking? âFrackingâ is short for hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking. It is the process of injecting frack fluid, a mixture of water, sand and chemicals, at high pressure into shale to fracture the rock, thereby releasing trapped natural gas. Marcellus shale is a layer of black rock that lies 3,500-8,000 feet below the surface and is the current target of fracking. Most of West Virginia is underlain with this shale; in West Virginia the vertical depth of the formation itself is approximately 150 feet. The formation also extends into Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, and Virginia. Fluid recovered from the well after the fracking is completed is called flowback fluid or waste water.