Truck Traffic

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Noise

When they drilled the well, less than 100 yards from my home we had 3 weeks of 7X24 drilling, with noise that is almost unbearable. After the first day, my ears were ringing and I was nauseous most of the time. We called the Encana supervisor who was very sympathetic and offered to put us up in a hotel. That was not an option for us as we have dogs and horses to be taken care of as well as not wanting to be away with crews full of strangers now living behind us.

We had a pregnant mare at the time and were scared she would drop the foal with the noise as loud as it was. The horses and the dogs were very upset. Can you imagine how that felt on a dog or horse's sensitive ears?

At that point, Encana offered to bring in noise abatement which consisted of double stack insulated rail shipping containers. It looked just horrible, all rusty and different colors, but it made a noticable difference in the noise level and provided us some privacy from the rig hands.

Crime

For over 10 years, the Chisholm Hills neighborhood went pretty much without any crimes. Since our neighborhood was turned into the entry to an industrial zone, we have had two burglaries, one attempted burglary, an incident of sex in the street by workers from the adjacent industrial zone, vandalism of 3 sets of speed bumps, and our Children at Play sign knocked down. We have had vagrants sleeping on the side of the road on our neighborhood streets. These are some of the incidents I personally know about within Chisholm Heights. There may be others incidents that I have not heard about.

We don't know the backgrounds of the drivers of the hundred trucks and other vehicles seen daily in our neighborhood and several neighbors have reported trucks stopping behind their house and staring in their windows at their wives and children.

Truck Drivers have made false accusations of rock throwing incidents which have even made the local newspaper. Some of those accused of this were not even home at the time they were reported to have committed the deed.

One truck driver was also seen exiting her vehicle and yelling at neighbors standing in their own yards.

All of us have had our close calls with the tank trucks and oversized rig vehicles at the low water crossings where the county road gets really narrow.

Encana's response is that the neighbors need to just calm down. Encana Community Relations stated there is no evidence that their drilling activities and truck traffic have caused any increase of crime in our neighborhood. Most of us would beg to differ.

01/21/09 A group of neighbors met with the Sheriff and he confirmed the burglary suspects are in custody.

Parker County Officials Involved

Know your county officials! These are the people we work with to try and work through the issues.

County Judge Mark Riley
County Attorney John Forrest
County Commissioner Jim Webster

Click the link below to find their contact information:

http://www.co.parker.tx.us/ips/cms/countyoffices/

Proposed Well and Pipeline Locations

There are several informative websites for the Barnett Shale.

http://www.barnettshalenews.com/

or a map
http://maps.oginfo.com/mapguide/barnett_shale/index.php