Sunday, May 06, 2007

 

Concerns aired about test site

By LEE MORRISON
The Times-Reporter

PORT WASHINGTON - Questions poured in from about 100 area residents wanting to know more about a proposed deep-well research project near Port Washington.

The Ohio Borehole Project was the topic of a public information session Thursday at Tuscarawas Campus of Kent State University at New Philadelphia. The session lasted more than 2 1/2 hours.

Sean Logan, director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, was among the speakers. In March, ODNR announced the project which calls for drilling a 9,000-foot-deep well at a site north of Rt. 36 between Gnadenhutten and Port Washington. The test well would determine if carbon dioxide could be stored there far beneath the 750-acre site owned by Holmes Limestone Co. of Berlin. However, officials stressed that there are no plans to permanently store carbon dioxide at the site during the research....Read more.