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
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| Example of private well |
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
