The Old Gas Well

The road was completely graveled from the well pad to the hard road. A day's preparation to laying gravel included grading the road (maintaining the existing gravel) and repairing and upgrading the drainage structures. After grading the contractor used a roller to compress the roadbed.

Putting down gravel took three days. The lightly and non-graveled portions of the road were done in two days with three sizes of gravel layered one on top of the other with rolling between. The top layer was crush and run to seal the roadbed. Another day was spent putting new gravel on the Lane's drives and redoing the road up the hill to the cemetery.

		This is the section of the road that was so severely damaged by the bulldozer and vac truck in our 2009 photos. The road has been graded and ditches created. Before, the drainage ditches were higher than the roadbed.
		Where the road had been lightly graveled in 2009, the grading retained it. Further down the road where it had been heavily graveled in 2008 appears white in the photo.
		The problem drainage for the pad was fixed so that water can flow from the surface. Before this work, the pad was a lake in winter. The water was trapped by surrounding higher terrain.
		These three pieces of equipment were used by the contractor (a company specializing in roads for gas wells). The roller is on the right.
		Besides work on the road, a day was spent removing a shed that held the metering device for the gas well and replacing pipe.
		The long blue vessel in the foreground was replaced and the separator (the tall tank) was set upright again.
		This is a photo of the crew working on leveling the separator.
		When the well work was finished a single pipe heads north from the separator with a metal box holding a meter straddling it.

More photos of road work.

This section of the site is devoted to the gas well that is going to be drilled on our property along with our research and findings.

The Gas Well main page

The Old Well

Gas Well Study

Reclamation

Drilling Waste Management

This post in the blog archive at LiveJournal shows the well as it was in 2008:

The Gas Well
9 September 2008