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|  I had a gas leak at my house a few years ago...scary but I did not have to evac, just have gas company folks tromp into the basement every two hours to check the levels for two days or so.... Hope all works out well and all are safe!
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| Very strange. I am familiar with the hazards of hydrogen sulfide, having worked in industrial facilities, particularly coke ovens, where hydrogen sulfide was a byproduct, but had never heard of hydrogen sulfide wells. I wonder if they are natural gas wells with an unusually high secondary concentration of hydrogen sulfide. If that is the case, it might be fortunate because clean natural gas is oderless until an oderant is added to make leaks detectable by smell. A house a few miles from my home was destroyed by a natural gas explosion caused by gas introduced into the house with the well water. Big Al
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| Yikes. Scary stuff. Hope it gets taken care of soon.
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| quote: Originally posted by big al:
Very strange. I am familiar with the hazards of hydrogen sulfide, having worked in industrial facilities, particularly coke ovens, where hydrogen sulfide was a byproduct, but had never heard of hydrogen sulfide wells. I wonder if they are natural gas wells with an unusually high secondary concentration of hydrogen sulfide. If that is the case, it might be fortunate because clean natural gas is oderless until an oderant is added to make leaks detectable by smell. A house a few miles from my home was destroyed by a natural gas explosion caused by gas introduced into the house with the well water.
Big Al
We have loads of oil and natural gas here so that could be. And because the building is 120 years old and oil wells were being drilled in the area before that, they aren’t 100% sure if it’s a natural well or a really old capped one. Emergency personnel are still in the area and it’s still all blocked off. Unfortunately it’s a town of 1,600 people and it’s at the “four corners” (the centre of the tiny business area) so most of the stores in town are impacted.
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| When I was a student I knew that when I saw a house on my left I knew to turn right to get home. One day it was a flattened pile. I did a double take. It made the news that evening. A gas leak caused an explosion.
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| Another update…. Apparently they capped the well after the 1930s explosion with tones of concrete. But they also left a vent so the gas wouldn’t build up (which is what causes the pressure/explosions to happen). Last year, a local restaurant that now owns the area where the vent was paved the parking lot, not knowing the 90 year old vent was there. The hydro is still off on the block. Two fire trucks and teams of firefighters are there round the clock. Two homes and a bunch of apartments are still evacuated. The small hotel and four restaurants on the block are closed. Seven miles away, a private home is undergoing the same thing. They were evacuated two years ago, and still can’t return.
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