A recent Explosion of a unregulated Natural Gas Well in Crescent
Twp. Pa which Killed an elderly couple who where getting gas from it
which had no odor to it
https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/private-well-site-deadly-house-explosion-does-not-appear-state-mapping-system/NXNMWLM5CJDPDBVTIIOW7GVZPI/
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Example of private well
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It brings back memories when I was on Staff at BSA Camp Semiconon
in 1977 in Conequnessing Butler County on Boy scout Road as a Rangers
Assistant .
We where having problems with the stoves in the
kitchen of the large Mess Hall where up to 150 scouts gathered 3 times a
day for meals , some times even more when we had Weekend Camporees .
They were having low gas pressure and the ranger asked one of the
scout leaders who worked for one of the Natural Gas Company's if he
could look at it .
Which he did and
When he realized
Raw Gas with no Odor was being feed from a private well he raised
absolute hell about it and camp was forced to install propane tanks as
the well was water logged and would be too expensive to properly fix and
put odor.
Now Gas Codes even back in the 1970s forbid using raw gas into structures yet Camp Semiconon somehow skirted the issue.
Now
you think the Council who ran the camp would no better especially
after their where over 400 children killed in a school in 1937 in New
London Texas when no odor gas exploded But no they could care less as
the camp which was around from 50s .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London_School_explosion
All they did was complain the cost of paying for propane . They Could care less scouts lives could have been affected.
But this is what you have when a council was run and dictated to by big corporate donators .
The well is still there in woods don't know if current owners got fixed or capped it .
Pa
now has an extensive program to find and cap these private unregulated
wells as so many now are well over 100 years old and causing issues.
The worst part I am willing to bet there are still scout and other youth camps in Western Pa still using private unregulated non odor wells