For more than a year residents along Highland Street Extension in DuBois have been voicing concerns over a proposed wastewater injection well along their street. 

Windfall Oil & Gas, which is based out of Falls Creek is the company that is interested in putting the well in Brady Township. 

Residents along the street told 6 News that the Environmental Protection Agency will be coming to the area in December for a public hearing. 

According to previous WJAC-TV reports, the process for obtaining a permit for an injection well is a 20 plus step process. 

Neighbors worry the permit that the EPA is reviewing for Windfall Oil & Gas is nearly complete. 

Before issuing a permit, residents are able to request a public hearing.

At this meeting local officials and residents are encouraged to voice their concerns regarding the matter. 

"This will effect many people. Not just the people who contracted the well. This is going to effect the whole neighborhood," said Valerie Powers who has lived on Highland Street Extension for 18 years. 

Powers, like  other neighbors have many concerns about an injection well near their home. 

The major concern residents have is that the well's casing only goes 50 feet below drinking water. 

They worry that if something wrong were to happen their drinking water would be contaminated. 

"They continue to dispose of the waste into these injection wells and the waste can go miles underground," said resident Darlene Marshall. 

Marshall said she is also concerned that the injection well may effect other wells in the area. 

"Pennsylvania's history is that we have drilled wells and many of them deep wells into these same formations. Some abandoned wells have the potential to brings these wastes back up into our water," she said. 

In July, the EPA made a visit to Clearfield County to sit down with local officials to discuss the permit process. 

During that meeting, officials said there are five brine disposal wells operating in Pennsylvania. 

Eight brine disposal wells had been listed from the EPA information in 2011 with one plugged in Indiana.

There are two disposal wells in Clearfield County. 

Marshall said it is important that neighbors and even Clearfield County residents attend the public hearing. 

"Being the last step we want the community to realize it is a very important time to watch and know when the public hearing is held and get involved and attend," said Marshall. 

"We won't stop until hopefully we can have a better outcome," said Powers. 

Neighbors tell 6 News the meeting is tentatively scheduled for the second week of December in Brady Township.