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Theta Land Corp., a com-panylinkedto landfill/casinodeveloper
Louis DeNaples, ispreparing to have a naturalgas well drilled on
itsPlainsTownship property.
The company contractedRice Drilling B LLC, a sub-s id ia ry o f
Wa s hin gt o nCounty-based Rice EnergyLLC, to drill the well.
Rice
applied fora drilling permitfrom the state Departmentof
Environmental Protec-tion on June 24, accordingto the departments
web-site.
Thetas property, though,is zoned as a conservationdistrict. In
order to begindrilling, Theta must applyfor a conditional
usepermit
f r o m t h e t o w n s h i p f o r e x t ra ct io n o f n a t u
ra lresources.
Kathleen OBoyle, thetownships zoning officer,s a id h e r o f f
ice h a s n o treceived any applicationsfor permits from Theta.
For a conditional use per-mit, Theta must go beforethetownship
planning com-
mission before getting finalapproval from the Board
ofCommissioners.
Planning commissionmeetings are held on an as-needed basis and
the com-missioners meet the secondThursday of each month.The next
commissionermeeting is July 15.
Patrick Sweet
SOURCES: LUZERNE COUNTY GIS/MAPPING AND ASSESSORS OFFICES
PATRICK SWEET / STAFF ARTIST
Theta-owned land zoned as conservation district
Drinking water well testing offeredHarveys Lake Environ-
mental Advisory Council, inpartnership with Wilkes Uni-versity,
is of fering a packageof drinkingwaterwell tests toborough
residents at a dis-countedprice.
Wilkes Universitys WaterQuality Laboratorywill mea-sure
residents water for pH,conductivity, turbidity, totaldissolved
solids, total coli-form, fecal coliform, fecalstreptococcus,
sodium, potas-sium, copper, iron, manga-nese, zinc, chloride,
sulfate,nitrate-nitrite,and phosphate.Additional parameters will
betestedthis year.
However, residents shouldnote that the testing is
forinformational and education-al purposes only anddoesnotmeet the
legal requirementsfor baseline water testingrelated to naturalgas
drilling.
EAC Vice President Cathe-rine Link said the counciloffers
thetesting about everytwoyears, as a public serviceto the
community.
Thetestsare as comprehen-
siveas theonesthatcostmore:residents are charged $75
forthepackage, whichhas a retailvalue of at least $180,
accord-ingto Link.
Interestedresidents shouldregister with EAC Adminis-trative
Assistant Denise Sultby calling 639-1042. Partici-pants can pick up
water sam-pling kitsat theHarveys LakeBorough Building
betweenJuly12 and24.
Water samples must bedropped off between 10 a.m.andnoon onJuly
24in the bor-oughbuildings meetingroom,where scientists will
performcertain testsimmediately.
Confidential final testresults will be mailed to par-ticipants
directly from theWilkes laboratory withintwoweeks of the
testingdate.Pay-ment in full for the testing isdue onJuly24.
A free follow-up question-and-answer session on waterwell
systems and non-pointsource pollution issues willbeheld at 10 a.m.
Saturday, Aug.14, by Brian Oram, a profes-sional geologist and
directorof the Wilkes University Cen-terforEnvironmental
QualityWater Lab.
The next Harveys Lake
Environmental AdvisoryCouncil meeting will be heldat 7 p.m.
Tuesday in the bor-ough building. Meetings areopen to
thepublic.
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