Meanwhile, from just on the other side of the hill from Bradford Township, 1490newsblog.blogspot.com reports:
“Some Foster Township residents seem to be having a problem Hedgehog Lane residents have been dealing with for months – oil and gas drilling affecting their water wells.
“Interstate Parkway resident Joe Piganelli told Foster Township Supervisors Monday night that the water in his neighbor’s well turned brown, but DEP told him his well had gone bad. However, it went bad the day fracking was done in the area.
“Piganelli asked that the supervisors contact the drilling company.
“‘If the three of you got a hold of US Energy and said ‘Hey, what the heck’s going on?’ … We had pristine water and now it’s garbage. Pretty soon you’ll be able to drink out of your sewer better than you can your water.’”
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“Piganelli also raised several concerns about drilling company trucks and what they’re doing on the roads.
“One concern is speeding.
“‘They’re going fast up there at 2, 3, 4, 5 o’clock in the morning,’ he said. ‘And I’ll tell ya – they’re raising hell.’
“Another concern he has is the drivers using Jake Brakes when they come down the hill.
“He also said they’re leaving mud on the road, which could be dangerous. He specifically mentioned driving out of Allegany State Park when it’s raining.
“‘If you hit that mud that they’ve left there … When I worked for Halliburton we had to clean up the highway,’ he said, adding that if they came out of the woods and had mud and dirt all over their trucks they had to clean the road.
“‘There’s no reason they can’t do that,’ he said.”
The same blog post reports this irony:
“Also Monday night, supervisors reminded residents that if they’re going to repave their driveways, they need a permit.
“Supervisor Chairman Bob Slike said the reason for the permit “is not to make a buck or anything off of it. It’s to make sure that driveway is put it so in the wintertime the plows don’t gouge it out.
“Supervisors said it’s the homeowner’s responsibility to get the permit, but the contractor should know enough to ask if they have one.”
That is, townships are allowed to protect their residents from building driveways less than optimally but they’re not allowed to do much to protect their residents from gas drilling … which presents just a few more risks than a gouge or two in some asphalt.
For the complete post, visit http://1490newsblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/water-well-problems-in-ft-too.html
Tags: DEP, Foster Township, fracking, gas drilling, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus, PA, traffic, trucks, water well
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