47-079-01215
Well drilled in 1996
Storage formation: Big Lime
Geographic location: latitude 38.517682, longitude -81.758713
Visited in 2008
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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