Corbett Wants to Spend Impact Fees to Plug Abandoned Wells

There is a very old well casing about 25 yards from the Silver Lake Creek in Silver Lake Township Susquehanna County that dates to before refrigeration was easily accessible. My grandfather built an enclosure around it to keep his milk chilled until pickup because the water that came up out of it was so cold. My grandmother tells me that folks used to come and fill buckets and take it as drinking water due to its high mineral content. I have been monitoring it pretty closely over the past four years and at first you would see a bubble or two come up every minute or so. I last checked it about five days ago and suffice it say the activity has increased exponentially. It would seem to me that these old uncapped wells could provide a sound indication of methane migration. Logically if there are increased levels of methane, gasses, and chemicals in the water coming from these old wellheads then there could, “potentially,” be increased levels of methane, gasses, and chemicals in nearby drinking water wells.