Four months after a salt water leak led to the deaths of more than two dozen head of cattle on a Caddo County farm, the leak is still discharging the poisoned water and the Corporation Commission is spending funds to resolve the issue.
The company that managed the poorly plugged century-old well located a mile from the farm where the 25 cattle died from drinking the stream water, is under monitoring of the Corporation Commission’s Oil and Gas Conservation Division. Nject Disposal LLC is under orders to “remediate and restore” the site but the saltwater still pours out of the well site.
An Administrative Law Judge issued an order that the well was expected to be plugged in late Thanksgiving, but the Southwest Ledger reported this week that as of January 8, the well was “still spewing saltwater.” Further, Corporation Commissioner Todd Hiett told the Ledger that contractors had already been paid “approximately half a million dollars” to transport the saltwater to a licensed disposal well north of Hydro in Blaine County.
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