i do not know the author of this message.  it came through the suncrest neighborhood assoc. email dist. list.
peggy<br><br>

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<br>From:<b> wvredsoxfan@yahoo.com</b><br>
To:<b> suncrestna@gmail.com</b><br>
To: <b>suncrestna@gmail.com</b><br>
Sent: <b>Mon May 30th, 2011 9:39 PM EDT</b><br>
Subject:<b> Gas Well Development</b><br><br>
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<div>I worked earlier in my career in the oil and gas drilling industry in Roswell, New Mexico; and Meeker, Colorado with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. I share the following with you;</div>


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<div>At the council meeting there were a lot of sincere &quot;environmental&quot; advocates who spoke with great emotional concern for our town.&nbsp; They missed covering some&nbsp;big technical issue associated with&nbsp; drilling in a narrow river valley town like Morgantown.&nbsp;There is no where for polluted air or noise from well operations to go in a small steep river valley town like Morgantown, it becomes trapped.&nbsp;</div>


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<div>I have worked around&nbsp;drill pads and drill rigs.&nbsp;There is all kinds of machinery operating on a</div>


<div>drill pad, and it is loud and goes 24/7&nbsp;for economic and engineering reasons.&nbsp;&nbsp;Drill site operations are totally insensitive/non-responsive to&nbsp;impacts on the &quot;local human environment.&quot; NOISE is a big factor when it is all bundled up and has nowhere to go, except right&nbsp;into neighborhoods and homes in the bottom of a little river valley&nbsp;like Morgantown.&nbsp;Someone better do a noise&nbsp;impact study in this river valley before the well operations commence.&nbsp;</div>


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<div>There&nbsp;are serious air pollution issues involved in gas well operations.&nbsp; When we have our routine weather inversions the effluents from the well operations will not be going up into the sky. The effluents will&nbsp;end up being concentrated and stagnant/trapped in&nbsp;our small&nbsp;steep walled river valley.&nbsp; The effluents can&#39;t go up, they will just move side ways,&nbsp;up and down the river valley through Morgantown.&nbsp; The noise and air pollution issues are not rocket science, and these factors/impacts are real, I know I worked in oil and gas fields.</div>


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<div>Last there is the air, noise, and visual impacts generated when the wells have to &quot;flared&quot; to control well head pressure, and purify the well.&nbsp; The noise sounds like a jet engine, you can see the fireball for miles. &nbsp;Flaring wells in a river valley residential community will not be accepted gracefully.&nbsp;</div>


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<div>Pls look at attachments </div>


<div>thx</div>


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