Road Gives Away Beside Amwell Gas Drilling Site
Washington PA Observer Reporter
20 July 2010
AMITY – A natural gas exploration company is repairing a stretch of a
country road that collapsed in a landslide last week in Amwell Township
beside one of its drilling operations.
Range Resources Corp. of Fort Worth, Texas, took responsibility for the
damages to Hackney Station Road and is overseeing the job, said Valerie
Petersen, spokeswoman for the state Department of Transportation.
A third of the width of the road near Amity gave way the distance of
about 50 feet beside the Kearney well site. The road was in poor
condition before the site was being prepared for the drilling of 10
wells, a company representative at the scene said.
No one was injured when the road crumbled during the night. The road
will be in much better condition when the repairs are completed in
early August, he said.
Company spokesman Matt Pitzarella said the road is among several the
company is repairing as the industry experiences massive growth in
Washington County.
PennDOT was having problems with the road and neighbors had been
complaining about its condition prior to Range arriving at the site,
company spokesman Jim Cannon said Tuesday. Range was in the process of
developing an access road from Hackney Station to the wells when the
damage occurred.
“It was due to be fixed,” Cannon said.