The Athens County Commissioners had their weekly meeting Tuesday morning to discuss the road damage caused by trucks hauling waste from hydraulic fracturing.
Though Athens has not seen the advent of horizontal drilling, the roads are taking a toll from traffic to and from the county’s injection wells, said Al Blazevicius, chair of the Strategic Committee on Hydraulic Fracturing.
The commissioners discussed using a road-use maintenance agreement, which would ultimately place responsibility for road construction and repairs on the well operators.
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Commissioner Lenny Eliason suggested discussing the situation with the Athens County engineer to remedy the problem.
“It was a very ordinary meeting,” Eliason said. “There was nothing out of the ordinary.”
Blazevicius recently made headlines when Wayne National Forest made the decision to allow the leasing of land for horizontal drilling.
Athens County Commissioner Larry Payne was also in attendance.
