Background, including letter of appreciation from Bill Gordon to Judge Word.  Now from the Bosque County News.

AUSTIN – Testimony in the four-day hearing at the Texas Railroad Commission over a proposed injection well in northern Bosque County ended with a string of unanswered questions on Tuesday, Sept. 18.

   Foremost among those was whether the Guru # 1 near Kopperl has sufficient cement at its base to prevent the wastewater injected into it from filtering into the Ellenberger Aquifer; whether the well will create traffic hazards and whether Richard Wickline, its operator, should be allowed to open it at all.

   The well, on County Road 1191, just off Texas 174 near Kopperl, has been a subject of controversy ever since Wickline received a permit to drill it earlier this year. The facility is expected to draw up to 200 trucks daily, dumping briny “frac” water from gas well operations in Johnson County and other areas.