Once a sewage line leak was mistaken for a mineral water spring. Same here?
We're doomed! We're all doomed!
Is this the same place where, back in the 60's, people started losing all their mail, when the town trash cans were re-labled "PLACE LITTER HERE"?
Kinda reminds me of the oil scene on the coast of California. Oil seeps up from the bottom of the ocean and washes ashore. There's also at least one place where oil seeps out a cliff by the shore. Still the enviro whack-jobs don't want drilling, because it will ruin the coastline.
Sounds like some natural gas reserves in Oklahoma need to be tapped. The land owners could make some handsome income off those it would seem.
We've been talking about it over here, too:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1538664/posts
So that's where Congress has built the new underground bunker. Sounds like Teddy Kennedy has already taken up residence.
That's a tough problem. I guess all of the producing wells in the area will have to be checked for casing leaks. If they get lucky, they'll find one and Halliburton (or somebody like 'em) will fix it in a jiffy.
If they don't find a casing leak anywhere, then there's always a chance that the gas is migrating from a deeper zone below into a shallow freshwater sand in an old, plugged well. If so, then I don't know how you'd find the problem well and I don't know the procedure for fixin' it.... short of drilling it out and plugging it again.
It may have to blow a while.
Well, hayl, if I was drivin' thru there I sure wouldn't stop...might get a geyser under your butt!
Earthquake to follow.