This is a report on our examination of a number of gas wells in Putnam and Kanawha counties. The wells in this section were viewed in 2008 and 2009 and are operated by several different companies.

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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

47-079-00298

This well was a dry hole drilled in 1944 and has been plugged. There are two monument pipes so we wonder if two attempts were made to drill the well or if they had other problems at this location.

The well site is just below and to the south of the Long Road after 47-079-01288. Other than the monument there is no other visible sign that a well had been here.

State regulations require the monument to have an API number for the well permanently affixed to the monument. We saw what looked like a rusted bracket for a number, but no number itself. We determined the API number for this plugged well by looking at maps.

		The two monuments stand side by side.
		There were indications that something had been attached at one time to the bracket. This was the only sign that there had possibly been the required API number.