Post by Logan on Mar 13, 2016 3:30:56 GMT -6
WILLISTON, N.D. – A ditch near Williston is flooded with water, but it’s not the result of unseasonably warm weather.
It’s a remnant of 1970s oil exploration, a hole drilled for seismic exploration that was never properly repaired.
Today, water from underground aquifers is flowing out of that hole at a rate of about 5 gallons per minute, estimates Cody VanderBusch, reclamation specialist for the state Department of Mineral Resources.
It’s one of many “shot holes” near Williston that have left wet spots in farmers’ fields for more than a decade.
Read more: oilpatchdispatch.areavoices.com/2016/03/13/state-fund-being-used-to-pay-for-plugging-old-shot-holes/
It’s a remnant of 1970s oil exploration, a hole drilled for seismic exploration that was never properly repaired.
Today, water from underground aquifers is flowing out of that hole at a rate of about 5 gallons per minute, estimates Cody VanderBusch, reclamation specialist for the state Department of Mineral Resources.
It’s one of many “shot holes” near Williston that have left wet spots in farmers’ fields for more than a decade.
Read more: oilpatchdispatch.areavoices.com/2016/03/13/state-fund-being-used-to-pay-for-plugging-old-shot-holes/