This is a report on our examination of a number of gas wells in Putnam and Kanawha counties all operated by the same company.

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Four Wells in the Kanawha State Forest

Three Wells with Surface Contamination

Three Well with Inadequate Secondary Containment

A Vertical Marcellus Well

Condensate Tank Overflow

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Putnam County
Poca River Road
583
731
1492
595
615
743
775
746
739

Spanish Oak Road
232
Putnam B-85

Long Road
298

Kanawha County
Dry Branch
5999
1266

Harmon's Creek
2026
5714

Environmental Assessment
Putnam County
1492 & 731

Kanawha County
2026
5714

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Putnam County
Long Road Group
1288
1215
1178
1299
702
No API #1
No API #2
No API #3
1155
No API #4
No API #5

River Road Group
735
601
570

King Cemetery Group
1200
274
404

Kanawha County
2026
5714

47-079-01215

This is a specially drilled storage well between the main well access road and 47-079-01178. Access to the well is gated.

This well is close to several pipelines. Our notes don't show any particular problems with the site, so our photographs illustrate one of the pipelines that crosses the site from east to west. Another pipeline, not shown in the these photos, goes north from the well, down a hillside where it meets a different east to west pipeline, all with cleared right-of-ways.

		The well is in a saddle between two ridges on a pipeline. This photo was taken while on the pipeline right-of-way.
		Pipelines in this area don't follow roads in the majority of instances. Instead they meander through the forest, in cleared right-of-ways as wide as a road. This is where the right-of-way meets the main access road.
		Looking up the cleared right-of-way toward where the first photo was taken.
		Looking west where the pipeline right-of-way is going.
		Up on the ridge a little ways past the storage well.

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