26 April 2011

Pad Construction - Day 28

Yesterday afternoon's thunderstorms rumbled through the night leaving two inches of rain. At sunrise the thick valley fog hid the well pad construction site ...



but under the morning fog the overnight rain had done its damage at the construction site. The rainfall running off the hillside overtopped the silt sock and created damage in multiple sections of the silt sock.





Crews were quickly on site to start repairing the damaged silt sock. One of the many erosion cuts in the pad area are visible in the background.



The truck with wood mulch for the silt sock was parked on the edge of the pad.



View from the pad near some of the erosion. The silt sock repair crew in the background.



Some soft spots at the edge of the pad.




Silt sock repair.



View of the stream crossing. Pile of wood mulch for the silt socks and new drainage cut (rock area) to divert water off road.

2 comments:

Carl Patten said...

The erosion sure did some setback there, but good thing it was all fixed with relative ease. Could have been worse for the silt sock. Is it strengthened now?

Bob and Mary Beebe said...

Carl - Soon after these erosion problems were fixed another storm caused the same problems again.

The gas lease for this property expired the end of June and the well pad was removed before any wells were drilled.

Bob