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

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This well shares the same road we do and we have photographs from 1997 showing how bad that road gets. Besides the problems with the road, the well has a wrong API number and poor vegetation on the pad.

A complaint was made by George to Office of Oil and Gas on September 8 about the road and lack of a dike for the tank. The tank had been allowed by the Company to overflow the previous winter and the petroleum condensate had run down the hill.

The company built a dike around the tank, removed most of the trash at the site but still has not fixed the problem of the wrong API number (wrong county number) on the well. Scrap pipe and other industrial debris remains on the site.

		During the winter of 2008 the tank was allowed to overflow crude petroleum.
		Since there wasn't a dike as required, the crude petroleum ran down the hillside. This and the previous photo were taken in early September 2008.
		A week after George's complaint to the Office of Oil and Gas the Company built the required dike around the tank and seeded the area.
		The tank trapdoor is still not locked.
		An old, unused pipe is still by the well. This should be hauled away.
		The metal pipework at the well site is long overdue for paint. This photograph shows a heavily corroded pipe at the wellhead.
		Two 55 gallon steel drums have been on the site since the 1980s (and may date back to when the well was drilled in the 1960s). Industrial waste like this shouldn't be left at a site.
		The road to the well was graded in September 2008 but since the well pad is lower than the surrounding terrain and there isn't adequate drainage, it becomes a lake in the winter. This photo was taken in late December.
		When the road was graded and partially graveled in September 2008, the inlet end of a culvert was almost entirely blocked.

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