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Oil Seeping from Ground in Parent's Back Yard
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| 03/21/05
| Laurel Barney
Posted on 03/19/2005 4:50:11 PM PST by The Grim Freeper
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To: The Grim Freeper
Also, watch out for "BURNS SLANT DRILLING CO." trucks next door.
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posted on
03/19/2005 5:11:17 PM PST
by
B Knotts
To: The Grim Freeper; Dog Gone; BOBTHENAILER
"But all that is to say, has anyone here ever heard of such a thing? Could crude oil be seeping to the ground surface due to the heavy rains?"Oil is lighter than rock, sand, and water. It naturally seaps up and pollutes the surface, that's why you have the La Brea Tar Pits in downtown Los Angeles, for instance.
Natural oil seapage is the world's largest polluter of crude; if you don't drill and remove the oil, eventually it winds up on the surface, polluting on its own.
42
posted on
03/19/2005 5:11:48 PM PST
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: chadwimc
They should get a survey history of the properly.
Is it a individual home ? or in a development ?
What was there BEFORE the house(s) were built ?
Are there any archives in the county library or county register to check on the history of the property ? to check and make sure it was not some kind of industry there before the house(s) were built ? Need to make sure it might not be old drums of ( what ever ) oil underground.
If it is truly a crude oil reserve under the properly, get the rights, permits, certificate for Mineral Rights as soon as possible.
Find a HONEST ( if that is possible in todays world ) lawyer.
43
posted on
03/19/2005 5:12:09 PM PST
by
Prophet in the wilderness
(PSALM 53 : 1 The ( FOOL ) hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
To: marty60
Check the property discription and see if the mineral rights come with the property. In Texas they do. But I don't know about CA.Man I live in the middle of the east Texas oil field and I also worked in real estate for years and you will never get mineral rights on land around here. They have been seperated for decades, I would imagine that CA is the same since there is so much oil around southern California.
44
posted on
03/19/2005 5:12:24 PM PST
by
federal
To: The Grim Freeper
Yer gonna need some 'possum recipes.
45
posted on
03/19/2005 5:13:05 PM PST
by
4thInfVet
(Howard Dean, the gift that keeps on giving!)
To: spokeshave
Most people have surface rights only. Subsurface rights can be gotten, maybe.
46
posted on
03/19/2005 5:13:35 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Please correct if cosmic balance requires.)
To: farmfriend; The Grim Freeper
It could be any of the above... the old mechanic who taught me much of what I know had a specially set aside corner in his yard where he poured & then buried motor oil. A high water table would force something like that to the surface.
BTW, check your deed for any strange "mineral rights" clauses-- a house I bought years ago for The Front Porch ( one of my stores ) had a specific clause which meant that any oil, gas, or valuable minerals were not mine, but reverted to the former owner. Didn't mean a damn thing in practice, since no such deposits existed, but the seller was covering all his bases.
47
posted on
03/19/2005 5:15:18 PM PST
by
backhoe
(-30-)
To: Cyclopean Squid
The only thing I would add to your excellent commentary is that this family may be able to sell oil and/or mineral rights to their property while retaining the right to reside there.
48
posted on
03/19/2005 5:15:29 PM PST
by
OldFriend
("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child might have peace." Thomas Paine)
To: dfwgator
49
posted on
03/19/2005 5:17:37 PM PST
by
mdittmar
(May God watch over those who serve to keep us free)
To: Ole Okie
"You've exceeded the good Colonel's record by 79 feet."
Seeping oil is no recent phenominun. Back in the late 1800's oil threatened water holes in Oklahoma and Texas where cattlemen watered their herds.
50
posted on
03/19/2005 5:18:44 PM PST
by
lawdude
(Liberalism is a mental disease.)
To: The Grim Freeper
I'm thinking it's a SuperFund site that the sellers didn't disclose when your parents bought the house. Hope it's JUST oil, and not paint thinners, solvents, etc.
51
posted on
03/19/2005 5:21:00 PM PST
by
BP2
To: The Grim Freeper
Could you be near a toxic waste dump???
(I'm on the plume from Lorenze Barrel and Drum)...
52
posted on
03/19/2005 5:21:07 PM PST
by
null and void
(Even if Terri didn't want to live like that, it doesn't follow that she wants to die like THIS!)
To: The Grim Freeper
Pray that the enviroLibs don't sue your parents for damages to "Mother Earth".
53
posted on
03/19/2005 5:21:48 PM PST
by
theymakemesick
(Adjusted for inflation, Clinton's 1997 $42m inauguration cost 25% more than W's $40m in 2005)
To: Southack
We need to make it a national champaign to tell the American people, and the libs/envirowackos, that, by drilling for oil, it is actually beneficial to the environment because it reduces those natural oil seepages.
54
posted on
03/19/2005 5:22:02 PM PST
by
Prophet in the wilderness
(PSALM 53 : 1 The ( FOOL ) hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
To: sourcery
Gee nobody wants to help you ... only use you to launch one-liners. Good ole FR.
You very likely do not own the mineral rights to your property is there is any chance of oil anywhere near it. Maybe you have half the rights. That's common. I don't know what the Texan is talking about. Nobody has the mineral rights to their property around here unless their ancestors got the Spanish land grant. Usually you find that some corportation or University holds the mineral rights to your land.
Besides that if you are in a residential neighborhood they will never let you drill. Ever. There are no unknown deposits of oil anywhere in california. They are all known and mapped. Your deposit has been determined to be not worth exploiting and the developer has kept this little secret to himself.
There could still be gold in them thar hills however. Lawsuit gold. You can sue the developer. The city (How dare they permit land for residential use with oil seeping to the surface?) You can sue the large corporation that sold the land to the developer that cut the lots. Sue em all.
The other very likely possibility is that you are living on a land fill. BIG lawsuit possibilities. I'd get that stuff analysed as soon as possible!!!
55
posted on
03/19/2005 5:22:18 PM PST
by
mercy
To: The Grim Freeper
I wouldn't mention it,I would assume California has some pretty waco enviromental laws,who knows what they may want to do.
56
posted on
03/19/2005 5:22:50 PM PST
by
mdittmar
(May God watch over those who serve to keep us free)
To: dfwgator
Rapists, serial killers, child molesters, ecoterrorists, gangstas, jackbooted govt thugs, meth freaks....
To: dagoofyfoot
Wow, I never noticed before that ol Jethro has a serious Melon Head, and these days Ellie May would have had transplants by season 2.
To: TexasTransplant
transplants = implants
(Ol geezers don't know squat)
To: The Grim Freeper
60
posted on
03/19/2005 5:28:35 PM PST
by
hookman
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