Williams County approves ponds for oil operations and reissues special-waste CUPs; adds road-cleaning condition after neighbor concerns

The Williams County Board of County Commissioners on Oct. 7 approved a series of conditional use permits allowing freshwater holding ponds for oilfield water storage and reissued permits for two special-waste landfills acquired by Select Water Solutions LLC.

County planning staff described pond projects that will store freshwater for use in oil-well development and detailed construction measures. For LUDash0075Dash25 the subject property is about 121 acres; the proposed pond will be about 500 by 419 feet, 15 feet deep, with a volume of about 49 acre-feet. Water for that pond will be provided under water permit 6281. For LUDash0076Dash25 staff said the parent parcel is about 151 acres, with a pond of roughly 49.9 acre-feet, about 500 by 235 feet, lined with a plastic liner and fenced; the water source was listed as a Blue Ridge Industrial Water Well. The applicants stated the ponds will be used to store freshwater to support oil well development; planning and zoning recommended approval on the…