Starring "Flaming" Fawcett.....
Posted on 07/08/2010 12:19:47 PM PDT by Willie Green
MONTAGUE COUNTY, Texas — A startling discovery is igniting fears about whether oil and gas drilling has ruined ground water in a rural Montague County community.
It's not just salty water coming out of the faucets at Stephen Brock's home near Bowie, about 70 miles northwest of Fort Worth; it's natural gas.
Brock knew his pipes gurgled, but he didn't realize they were burping flammable gas until Monday.
He decided to test his faucet after watching a documentary on drilling. He ignited a lighter next to the running water.
"It totally engulfed the whole sink," Brock said. "I jumped back and shut the water off, then I called the Railroad Commission right away."
The Texas Railroad commission examines drilling issues. Brock said investigators took samples the next day, and returned for more right after the phenomenon was documented by News 8.
"The Railroad Commission guy told me, 'Yeah, it's coming in your well, up through your well,'" Brock said.
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Hook that stuff up to the furnace and the hot water heater.
Hook that stuff up to the furnace and the hot water heater.
No one in that home wants to do the dishes...
and get a mirco-turbine to make your electricity. With the savings from never buying energy again, you can sink a brand new water well into a different zone.
I thought flaming faucets were found mainly in San Francisco...
LOL. What a great idea. American ingenuity - I love it.
Water AND natural gas? Sign me up.
/johnny
Let me guess, your solution is choo choo trains.
So when you leave the john and someone suggests lighting a match.... it could be a tad embarrassing.
Fire water.
I knew a guy near Evart Michigan why had to vent the gas off his water well. Its really a pretty simple thing to deal with.
Mnay wells have some natural gas in them. Not far from here, where there are no oil or gas wells, a woman was killed several years ago when her laundry room exploded. She had a load in her electric dryer at the time.
The cause was natural gas in the well. The well had a vent on it for this but wasps had plugged it.
Starring "Flaming" Fawcett.....
That’s hydrogen sulfide gas, caused by a bacterial action in the aquifer and wellhead. Common and typical, solved by pouring bleach down the wellhead. The water is salty, however, and that might be the result of a bad casing around a salt-water injection well. Or it might just be that the particular acquifer is salty.
Evart, eh?
Reminds me of spaghetti at Mama Lucia’s.
Come and listen to a story ‘bout a man named Jed...
That what I was thinking, and get a natural gas electric generator!
"The Texas Railroad commission examines drilling issues." ;-)
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