At a public meeting Wednesday for the first facility in the state designed to meet new treatment standards for the toxic water produced by drilling in the Marcellus Shale, an engineer for the proposed plant told a crowd of more than 100 that the treated water it will dump into the Susquehanna River will be cleaner than the water there now.

For more than three hours, the audience, made up of many people who drink water pulled from sources downstream from the proposed plant, questioned how they will know for sure that the salts, chemicals, and dozens of other "pollutants of concern" lacing the Marcellus Shale water will be gone by the time they use it.

One Williamsport resident, wearing a shirt patterned with swimming fish, took the microphone.

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