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PITTSBURGH (AP) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it has completed tests on drinking water in the northeastern Pennsylvania village of Dimock (DIH'-muk) and has determined it is safe. But some residents dispute that and say gas drilling ruined their wells.

The EPA says in a statement Wednesday that it doesn't plan further tests, and that there's no need to provide residents with alternative supplies of drinking water.

Resident Ray Kemble says his water is still contaminated, and he doesn't trust EPA's public statements.

The town became a focus in the debate over hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, when opponents of drilling showed that some residents were able to light their tap water on fire because of high levels of methane gas. But geologists say such contamination can also happen naturally.

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