Joshua Star (Joshua, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 24, 2011 Page: 7 of 18
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GAS: Council displeased with
drilling company permit violations
FROM PAGE 1A
drilling pad sites - both those
operated by Chesapeake and
other companies - and that
they may not have been ad-
dressed in a timely manner
gained some clarity when
Councilman Jerry Moore’s
son began a science fair proj-
ect looking at land uses in
Johnson County. The coun-
cilman decided to take up
what his son found with the
council.
The city’s inspector be-
gan investigating each pad
site and noting issues in a
report delivered monthly to
City Council. The pad sites
out of compliance face fines
and the potential to lose their
permits.
That is every pad site in
the city. Violations have been
noted at the Allen, East Allen,
Forrest Lane, Holland, Josh-
ua, Kinnear, Luck, Ryan and
Sandlin Heritage pad sites
operated by Chesapeake.
Four other pad sites operated
by other drilling companies
have noted violations.
“As the leading urban
driller of natural gas, Chesa-
peake Energy is committed
to operating sites that are
not only the most productive,
but are also attractive,” said
Chesapeake communication
manager Brian Murnahan in
a statement. “Chesapeake’s
new site-beautification ef-
forts are being led by Cassie
King and her multi-disci-
plinary urban site planning
team. King, who started with
Chesapeake earlier this year,
is a professional landscape
designer. She is working to
enhance sites with the most
appropriate landscaping and
fencing.”
But, some violations are
more concerning than oth-
ers, Moore said. He contends
these violations aren’t only
occurring in Joshua.
“We want to be friendly
with the gas companies,” he
said. “Their work has to be
done in a safe and profes-
sional manner.”
It all came to a head last
Thursday, when Chesapeake
asked the City Council for
approval of an application to
drill and operate the East Al-
len 3H well.
“I’m a little disappointed
in Chesapeake,” Mayor Joe
Hollarn said. “It is going to
take a fourth inspection to get
these (violations) corrected.”
Drilling pad sites inside
the city limits were inspected
in 2009, 2010 and again in
February. Inspections are
funded by operators of the
drilling pad site and noted
violations are to be remedied
prior to the next inspection.
But, the city’s report finds the
companies are at best slow to
react and remedy permit vio-
lations.
A violation can occur
because of any number of
things. Some of the most
common concerns are trash
and debris, sites in need of
leveling and grading, paint-
ing needed of equipment, fit-
tings and piping, landscape
and erosion issues, absence
of lightning arrestors, ab-
sence or misuse of knox box-
es, absence of or the wrong
exterior fencing, unused
equipment being stored on
site, open cellar doors, rust-
ing pipes and fittings inside
the fire wall and gates left
open while unattended.
“We will work to get this
corrected,” Chesapeake
spokesman Justin Bond said.
The issues can be rem-
edied within a month, Bond
said. Larry Hulsey, the city’s
inspector, authored a let-
ter to Hartman that indi-
cated the East Allen pad site
is “in compliance with the
city ordinance as much as
is possible until all drilling
and completion work is fin-
ished.”
But, until all issues on ah
pad sites operated by a com-
pany have been fixed, the
council indicated it would
not approve a new drilling
permit. The permit request
was tabled by a 5-0 vote,
with Councilmen Bob Neely
and Noelyn “Butch” Isom
absent.
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YOUTH: Spring league to open
FROM PAGE 1A
-ning at 8:30 a.m. Saturday
at the city park fields. Teams
in the spring league will
gather on Field 1 at 9 a.m.
A dedication will take place
at 9:15 a.m. and Mayor Joe
Hollarn will throw out the
first pitch at 9:30 a.m. The
first youth games on the
new fields will take place
at 10 a.m. Carnival events
and games will take place
throughout the day.
“I think the city did an ex-
cellent job,” Kelly said. “For a
small city like Joshua to have
a facility like this is excel-
lent.”
The JBA fields are virtual-
ly in the same place they were
last spring, but they have re-
ceived a major upgrade. It is
enough of a difference that
some JBA officials believe
they can land a PONY tour-
nament in the first season at
the facility.
Mike Peacock, the city’s
operations director, played
a major role in construction
of the park and the playing
fields. His son will play in the
JBA this year.
“He has never played be-
fore,” Peacock said. “I think
there’s a lot of excitement.
There’s practices going on six
days a week over there.”
A benefit softball tour-
nament for Joshua Police
Officer Zach Mazey gave
the complex a trial run. The
city learned it needed a plan
to accommodate overflow
parking, that there were
not soap dispensers in rest-
rooms and there was a toilet
paper shortage. Solutions
to all problems have been
found. Overflow parking will
be made available off Spring
Valley Road, next to the rail-
road tracks.
“We’re hoping it will be
a nice Saturday afternoon,”
Kelly said. “Watching some
hometown baseball and soft-
ball sounds like a good Satur-
day afternoon to me.”
But, the players might
find facilities continue to im-
prove. City park groundsman
Chris Pribble has been invit-
ed to learn some tricks of the
trade from the best.
“He’s going to go work
with the Texas Rangers,”
Peacock said. “I guess he’ll
learn about everything there
is to know.”
MEALS: Mayor gives back by
delivering lunch fare to seniors
FROM PAGE 1A
missioners Rick Bailey, Don
Beeson, John Matthews and
Jerry Stringer.
There are three Meals-
on-Wheels routes serving 20
residents in Joshua and the
surrounding unincorporated
areas. Hollarn and Martin
served meals on a route Tues-
day that included residents
in both areas. About 375 resi-
dents are served meals by the
program in Johnson County.
One resident said she
recognized the mayor, but
thought he looked different.
“That was probably the
old mayor,” Hollarn said.
“But I know you’ve been
here before,” the resident
told the mayor.
He ran unopposed for the
mayoral election in 2010 and
may have made a campaign
stop.
“That was probably it,”
she said. “But, I think you
brought me my meal before.”
Another couple of resi-
dents said it was a lucky day
anytime they get a meal de-
livered by someone like the
mayor, and another asked
the mayor to remember her
in prayer as she prepared to
visit the doctor for an ear in-
fection.
“We will,” the mayor said.
Martin, a recent South
Texas transplant, is a former
school teacher. She decided
delivering for Meals-on-
Wheels was a worthwhile ef-
fort.
“I started delivering in
Burleson,” she said. “I had to
wait to get a Joshua route.”
That’s because, fortunate-
ly, Joshua routes are typically
filled with volunteers. There
are even two Joshua ISD el-
ementary schools that take
students on the routes.
“We have been blessed to
have a good set of volunteers
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JOSHUA STAR/BRIAN PORTER
Donald Sims, center, said it's not every day that someone like the
mayor stops by his place. Mayor Joe Hollarn, right, and Joshua
resident Paige Martin, left, delivered meals Tuesday for Meals-
on-Wheels.
in Joshua,” Patterson said.
All three Joshua routes
are presently filled with vol-
unteers, but that isn’t the case
in neighboring cities such as
Burleson and Cleburne.
“That’s where we need
the help,” Patterson said.
“Joshua is a smaller, close-
knit community and we don’t
seem to have trouble filling
routes.”
COLLEGE NOTES
University of North Texas
Josh Brittain, a 2010 graduate of Joshua High School, was
named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at the University
of North Texas. Brittain is an engineering major.
To qualify for the dean’s list, students must earn a 3.5
grade-point average in all courses during the semester.
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