47-079-01364
Well drilled in 2007
Producing formation(s): Berea Sandstone, Lower Huron and Rhinestreet Shales
Geographic location: latitude 38.498931, longitude -81.763694
Visited first in 2008
This well is one of a cluster of wells at the southern end of the long main well access road. This is the third, after 47-079-00702, and just before 47-079-01155.
This is a new well whose site was bare of vegetation. We visited in November and there were no signs of seeding. The pipework at the site already needs paint.
Trash in the form of scrap pipe on the pad and what looked to be an abandoned portolet needs to be hauled away.
The 50-barrel steel tank needs the required secondary containment dike.
In spite of being a new well, the access road was already showing ruts. Since there was no vegetation on the site the exposed mineral soil was eroding and the culvert for the road was partially plugged. There was no sediment control at the outlet end.
An API number is required by state regulations to be displayed at the well yet there was no tag on the well.
The well access road from the main access road. This is a new well and the road is already rutted.
The site was absolutely lacking in vegetation.
Because of the lack of vegetation, there was a lot of sediment. The culvert is halfway blocked. There is no sedimentation control on the outlet end.
This is a new well that needs to have the pipework painted.
The tank in the background is without required secondary containment.
This tipped-over portolet looks like its been left behind as trash.
Scrap pipe that should be hauled away.
Visited again in 2010
When we visited the site again in 2010 it essentially looked the same. There was a little more vegetation on the pad, though the pad was still poorly vegetated. The storage tank now had the required secondary containment, though the wellhead still did not have an API number.
The rusted metal at the wellhead had been painted since 2008.
The secondary containment for the storage tank.
The tank was beginning to show signs of severe corrosion.
The pad is still poorly vegetated.
The partially blocked culvert in 2008 looked the same in 2010.
The portolet seen in 2008 had been broken up and pieces tossed into the brush.
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