Murrysville board will continue hearing fracking challenge

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Murrysville board will continue hearing fracking challenge

Patrick Varine | Saturday, June 22, 2019 8:18 a.m.

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Attorney John Smith gives his opening statement on behalf of the Murrysville Watch Committee on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018. The group is challenging the validity of Murrysville’s fracking ordinance before the municipality’s zoning hearing board.

The Murrysville Zoning Hearing Board will continue hearing a challenge to the town’s fracking ordinance on Monday night .

The citizen group Murrysville Watch Committee challenged the validity of the ordinance last year, and hearings have been ongoing since late November 2018.

Murrysville council members voted 6-1 in 2017 to approve a fracking ordinance, which they worked on over seven years. Canonsburg drillers Huntley & Huntley soon after requested state permits for a well pad with up to six wells, and access road on 71 acres off Bollinger Road.

Conditional-use applications for that project, the Titan well pad, were the subject of a public hearing at the June 19 Murrysville council meeting. That public hearing will continue in July.

The zoning hearing board’s meeting is set for 7 p.m., June 24 in the Murrysville municipal building at 4100 Sardis Road.

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