Ada CIC members learned that Marathon Oil has filed an application with the Ohio EPA for construction of a 49-mile petroleum pipeline.

The proposed pipeline route passes through the Village of Ada’s groundwater supply.

David Retterer, Ada mayor, told CIC members that the proposed pipeline location does not seem to raise a lot of red flags, but that the village is concerned with anything passing through or over its groundwater supply.

The mayor wrote in a letter to the EPA that the village has a few questions about the project.
1 – How are leaks monitored?
2 – Can small leaks be identified before they become major leaks?
3 – Where will the pipeline be in direct contact with the limestone?

Attachments to this story include:
• EPA public notice
• Village of Ada response
• Project alignment map
• Overburden thickness map