This reminds me of Whitespot where Carrizo built their pad site so it caused the neighborhood to flood.
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Sharon – actually Reichmann Petroleum is teh original driller who built the pad site and then it was flipped to Carrizo. Update: the county has now commissioned a hydrology study which we have requested for years. Carrizo would not respond, so the county is funded it themselves. We'll see…..
Hi Sharon,
I just found your blog, and I'm so thankful that I did. I live in Bartonville off Frenchtown – we moved out here because we are avid cyclists are runners. I feel like the wool was pulled over our eyes when we bought our property. I'm trying to catch up and learn everything I can to do what I can to stop it. I'm disgusted in what is going on in this area.
To Runner Susan above, did your Realtor tell you about all this stuff? Realtors in Tx are really derilect in regard to notifying buyers of O&G problems.
Runner Susan–sorry about your situation, which is another example of the real life consequences of people's and group's simply putting their own self interests before those of the community–of which they themselves are members and could also suffer the consequences in some way and some time. Like my neighbor Steve Doeung (in FW Weekly) always say when trying to get people's attention: we are like fish living in a huge fish bowl where any disruption or harm introduced at any spot will eventually affect all the others in the bowl at some point and in varying degrees. Realtors and insurance companies keep saying that they will only point out certain issues only if it actually exists/well-known or required by law or their professional codes. Which reminds me of another thing Steve had said: Just because you could doesn't mean you should (for drillers) AND just b/c you're not required by laws/rules doesn't mean you're not required by conscience/morality/civility (for everybody but esp. neighbors and professionals in the know or with the resources to help "the public good"). Vigilance is the word of the time, but it would help so much if we return to practicing the timeless rule of "loving thy neighbor" and treating others as you yourself want to be treated.
Just wait. Someone is going to sue the pants of a realtor and then they will make sure to disclose everything. Eventually, no one will buy any property in Texas.
Sadly, you're probably right on both counts, TxSharon. It's a "fight or flight" situation in the B.S. area. Let's hope and pray that enough people will fight instead of choosing the latter, which could turn this area into a larger version of those former boomtowns in west Texas.
We should move this conversation to the new post about drilling in a flood plain. Lots more information there.