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Just to follow-up on this story, the City Council Public Hearing on this "Zoning Change" from Retail (yes, a gas drilling site was zoned as "Retail" when any amount of common sense says it should have been "Zoned" as "Industrial") was conducted on April 15, 2014 and ended with a VOTE to Table.
The SECOND Public Hearing on this Zoning Change will occur tonight, May 20th, 2014, 6:30 PM at Grand Prairie, TX City Hall.
Here's the Agenda for Tonight's Meeting (See Item 37 on Page 9 of the Agenda Below):
A Public Meeting was conducted on May 8th at the Betty Warmack Library on Bardin Road.
We learned from that meeting:
- NO Soil or Groundwater Testing will be conducted for this land that was used for shale gas mining operations beginning in 2010. "City staff" told us that the city would have to pay $60,000 for that and, of course, that's too much!!
- In addition, we were told at that meeting that Disclosure will NOT be required for any developer who builds new "Homes" or "Anything" on this damaged land.
Really??
It's not over, 'til it's over. AND Just to make it perfectly clear, the Westchester Gasette is your source for reporting Barnett Shale bizarro, irresponsible and potentially deadly decision-making by North Texas city leaders and their city managers.
Amen.
*UPDATE*: We now believe Corn Valley Well 1H was perfed and fracked beginning somewhere around January 27, 2011. (RRC records refer to it as an "unperfed" completion since not all leases were obtained.) Due to a death in our Westchester family and extremely cold weather conditions, attention was elsewhere and so no pictures were obtained during the time frame for this FRAC job. But we are assured that this well was completed even though the Kilgore District Office of the Railroad Commission of Texas has no record of it due to no rules/requirements for Completion (Perfing/Fracking) paperwork in place at that time. (Westchester Neighbor. June 15, 2015)
