Road damage from drilling activities?

We reported this morning about another issue related to gas drilling: the damage caused by the fleets of heavy trucks required for drilling, fracing and other operations. Fort Worth has not been collecting money from gas companies to pay for damage to local roads because the Transportation Department doesn't think it can prove that specific road problems were caused by gas drilling. But it's routine for outlying counties to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars after documenting the damage.

Reader Dan O'Leary is hopping mad, and has sent numerous pictures showing the problems on his street.

Are any of y'all seeing similar problems?

Read the story here:

http://www.star-telegram.com/local/story/443988.html

Here's the view from O'Leary's window:

And here's a photo from Old Weatherford Road in Parker County, courtesy of the county commissioner's office:

-- Mike Lee

Comments

[Archie]

Just another example of how badly our city council has handled the gas drilling in our city. Chemical injection/disposal wells; high impact gas wells; street damage; air pollution; water pollution and all sorts of property damage. Now we're supposed to be surprised that gas drillers are tearing up our streets? With a cost of $900,000.00 per lane mile to repair streets it won't take long to eat up all of the signing bonuses and royalties our Mayor braggs so much about.
OH, I'm sorry...the Mayor isn't going to use the gas money for repairing our streets. He wants the citizens of Fort Worth to approve yet another BOND (see loan) program to fix the streets that the gas drillers are tearing up! The incompetence out of the Mayor's office is beyond belief.