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Regular Council Meeting Minutes <br />4-20-09 <br />Page 6 <br />Oil spills are expensive to remediate. There's a difference between rural wells and residential wells. <br />Content on a large grass of land, 20 plus acres in rural areas is a completely different scenario versus <br />residential areas where you have sewers backfilled with stone. If a spill hits the stone, that, encasing a <br />sanitary or storm sewer contamination, can travel long distances. Most property ovcmers are likely to <br />be alarmed when they discover that there's a high probability that their homeowner's insurance will <br />either exclude coverage from environmental claims or exclude coverage for the occurrence as a <br />commercial or business venture. <br />Mr. Triner has a document which he would like to enter into the record from State Farm Insurance <br />who is addressing a well being drilled in Broadview Heights. He told the homeowner that in the <br />event there is a claim on the property, his home will be uninsurable and he will be unable to get a <br />mortgage from a bank or sell the property. <br />Mr. Triner added, you will probably note that everything the drilling company does will be done <br />under the veil of limited liability and that many carry $5,000,000.00 liability insurance while the <br />properiy owners place their entire personal net worth at risk. Again, is the reward worth the risk? <br />Wells, even good ones, eventually go dry or become unproductive to the point where it does not <br />make economic sense to operate them. The cost of removal is significant. Also, gas companies have <br />the right to use the wellsite that has gone dry as a hazardous waste. This is already starting in <br />Ashtabula. Once wells go dry, property owners are still on lease where they have no rights. The gas <br />company walks in and says, now they are going to use the well as an injection well for gas. This <br />clause is currently in the Eastlake Schools' drilling pernut. Again, one has no rights to say, no. . <br />Imagine what this would do to your.property value. <br />Again, in closing, Mr. Triner must ask, is the reward really worth the risk? <br />There's another thing too. When they drill on these sites, they have to have containment rules and <br />everything else. Only in Ohio are they not required to take that discharge to a hazardous waste dump <br />or have the EPA check it. They can take and mix it with fly ash coal from the power plants and bury <br />it right on the property further contaminating a11 of the property. <br />Mr. Triner thanked Council. <br />Council President Buckholtz thanked Mr. Triner and asked for the next person. Also, if anyone <br />would like to enter their name and address, not speak, but to enter your name to endorse what's being <br />said, just stop by Mary Beth and give your name and address and that will save you from having to <br />repeat what is already being said. <br />Richard Davis <br />801 Hanover <br />Mr. Davis thanked Council for the opportunity to speak to Council and guests. Mr. Davis wanted to <br />express appreciation to the Mayor's office for sending out the mailing to selected Village residents <br />and the enclosed questionnaire. However, he wanted to share the fact that generally return rates on <br />mailed questionnaires are notoriously sma11, even when issues may be important to residents. In fact,