UPDATE click here for 10/2/14 storm/wind damage photos in Arlington.

UPDATE Aug 2014 the City never responded and the NCTCOG won’t put it on the agenda for their next storm water meeting.

Sept1, 2014 UPDATE here is today’s screen shot for an action request. I never heard back from our gas drilling dept. personal email that I sent to Jim Parajon the day this happened.

END UPDATE

This flood made international news…

This pic is from the west side of Elm st. The flood waters are traveling east in this storm drain on my street by the Boys & Girls Club at the 600 Block of N Elm St …

This next pic is of Elm street facing east where waters are moving fast eastward towards the Entertainment District…

Here is the video of Elm street facing east…https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10204158688070357&set=vb.1320864445&type=2&theater

Next is a pic below of the same water as seen on Elm a couple of blocks east. This is a west view of the 700 block of E Sanford & Truman St by the mobile home park.

This next video below is where you can see two downed trees on Sanford street.

The city was quick to come excavate and remove the trees. The following video is a view of the east side of Truman & Sanford apartments that are one block west of Collins street south of the ATT Stadium…

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10204156706500819&set=vb.1320864445&type=2&theater

Notice in the video the water fall coming from the south? The Chesapeake site is located south too…..

The Chesapeake Truman drill site is at 310 N Collins & Division and their frac fresh water pond and storage tanks are about 700 feet away from those apartments. On their  padsite, they have what appears to be two storm drains which may have already released the water?

The cement looking deal on the ground at the corner of the fence appears to be a storm drain at the Truman drill site.

The white deal on the ground also appears to be a storm drain on this flooded Truman drill site.

This photo shows the water on the fenceline and look at how close the adjacent hotel is to this drill site. You can also see the rooftop of the duplex above the “ESD” sign.

Any storm water that comes off any drill site should be held and tested before being released.

But in my experience with other Arlington storm flooded drillsites…

between Cheap Cheatapeake,

our Cowardly City Council,

the land Rapist Railroad Comission (RRC), and

the Economically challenged EPA…..

the only testing that MIGHT be done would be by the RRC who would then ONLY test for chlorides-not fracking fluids, NORM, heavy metals, or Benzene.

If they don’t want to test cause they don’t want us to know the results, they should at least send out a vacuum truck and dispose of that water in an injection well…..but if those are storm drains and they are in the open position on the padsite, then that is too late…for Johnson Creek.

Finally the storm waters (mixed with toxic padsite colloids riddled pollution?) continued eastward. WFAA covered the closure of Six Flags and Hurricane Harbor with some impressive Johnson Creek waters….

The next two photos are from Gabriel Rivas taken at Collins and Randol Mill which is north of the ATT Stadium.

Floods are bad….flooded drill stites are even worse though….ban fracking now….plug and abandon all these gas wells…un-industrialize Arlington TX.

—– Forwarded Message —–

From: Jeff Rice <JRice@nctcog.org>

To: “kimfeil@sbcglobal.net” <kimfeil@sbcglobal.net>

Cc: Jeff Rice <JRice@nctcog.org>; Jack Tidwell <JTidwell@nctcog.org>; Edith Marvin <EMarvin@nctcog.org>; Jennifer Vuitel <JVuitel@nctcog.org>; Nalani Jay <NJay@nctcog.org>

Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 3:31 PM

Subject: RE: Request for you to forward this to the Emails of the Storm Water Committee-Environment

Ms. Feil:

Thank you for your e-mail and interest. The Committee that oversees NCTCOG’s Regional Stormwater Management Program is the Regional Stormwater Management Coordinating Council (RSWMCC), which is scheduled to meet on August 27, 2014 at 9:30 am (details below).

Regional Stormwater Management Coordinating Council

Wednesday, August 27, 2014, 9:30 am

William J. Pitstick Executive Board Room, NCTCOG Offices

616 Six Flags Drive, Arlington, Texas 76011

We have noted your request with the RSWMCC Chair.  Unfortunately due to time constraints, this item will not be included on the agenda for the upcoming RSWMCC meeting.  We will discuss this issue with the RSWMCC Chair and other departments at NCTCOG to determine how to best address your comments.

Thank you again for your and interest.  Please let us know if we can be of further assistance.

Jeff Rice
Environment & Development Planner
North Central Texas Council of Governments
817.695.9212

From: kim feil [mailto:kimfeil@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 12:53 PM
To: Elizabeth Zecckine
Cc: Michael Mallonee; jim.parajon@arlingtontx.gov; Buzz Pishkur; Laura Hunt
Subject: Request for you to forward this to the Emails of the Storm Water Committee-Environment

Please assist in getting an agenda item on the NCTCOG’s next meeting on 9/10/14, 9:30 am for storm water drainage issues related to holding and testing storm waters at Urban Drilling Padsites and Compressor Stations for…

Heavy Metals,

NORM,

Colloids,

BTEX, and

Fracking Chemicals

In addition to effluents that can contaminate the padsites at all stages of NG extraction/production, there is a newly identified problem with COLLOIDS during the flowback stage and mudfarming stage. This is the equivalent of “frack on crack” as heavy metals can leach out of the ground at an abnormally high rate.

This needs to be addressed ASAP in our feast or famine rain weather conditions here in the Barnett Shale.

Thank You

Kim Feil

* T. Sury, Karen Siddall, Walter Shumac, Derek Senter, Echo Rexroad, Howard Redfearn, Lisa Mensing, Amitis Meshkani, Tim Porter, Krista Pender, Christopher Metz, Robert Berndt, Mike Brownlee, Becca Grassi-Peterson, Jerry Joslin, Jerry Laverty, Jodie Ledat, David Lenartowicz, Cindy Mendez

Kim Feil
http://barnettshalehell.wordpress.com/

TEX LG. CODE ANN. A§ 253.005 : Texas Statutes – Section 253.005: LEASE OF OIL, GAS, OR MINERAL LAND
“(c) A well may not be drilled in the thickly settled part of the municipality..”

Texas Administrative Code, Title 30, Part 1, Chapter 101, Subchapter A,
Rule 101.4, Environmental Quality, Nuisance

No person shall discharge from any source whatsoever one or more
air contaminants or combinations thereof, in such concentration and
of such duration as are or may tend to be injurious to or to adversely
affect human health or welfare, animal life, vegetation, or property, or
as to interfere with the normal use and enjoyment of animal life, vegetation,
or property.