Ladera Ranch Drinking Water Stored Underground in Concrete Tanks Nearby 100 year Old Oil & Gas Well Could Leak Horizontally into Foundations

Ladera Ranch Drinking Water Stored Underground in Concrete Tanks at Mission Hills Park 29361 Bell Pasture Rd Ladera Ranch, CA, nearby at Citrus Lane a 100 year old Oil & Gas well could be leaking horizontally into foundations. When and if the 100 year old and 64 year old oil & gas wells at Citrus Lane and Poets Park Ladera Ranch CA start leaking, fluids and gases typically migrate both vertically up the compromised wellbore and horizontally, lateral side to side, into surrounding soil, rock layers and into concrete foundations of nearby structures. Degraded steel casing and crumbling historic cement plugs allow methane gas and H2S gas and liquids to travel straight up the old pipe path and horizontally. 

Once pressurized fluids, oil or gas, hit permeable underground rock strata, faults, or rusted-out holes in the side of the casing, they often spread horizontally into surrounding soil, the shale layer and into the concrete foundations of nearby structures. In an old, inactive oil and gas well at a True Vertical Depth (TVD) of 8,365 feet like the one under Poets Park drilled in 1961, the hydrostatic pressure typically ranges between 3,622 psi and 4,350 psi. The hydrostatic pressure at 4,350 feet deep in an oil well like the one under Citrus Lane Ladera Ranch drilled in 1921 will typically range between 1,522.5 psi and 2,175 psi. It appears fluids from these wells could be flowing horizontally into concrete foundations of nearby structures under pressure.

The drinking water for Ladera Ranch is stored in underground concrete reservoirs at Mission Hills park. Like most of South Orange County, Ladera Ranch does not rely on local groundwater for its primary drinking supply; water is imported via major regional pipelines. Ladera Ranch, California gets its drinking water imported and piped in from regional water agencies via the Santa Margarita Water District (SMWD) with chloramine and the sulfites in the water. But, drinking water for Ladera Ranch is stored in concrete reservoirs underground at Mission Hills Park 29361 Bell Pasture Rd Ladera Ranch. In Ladera Ranch CA they have two abandoned deep drilled oil & gas wells, one is 8,365 feet deep drilled through the 'Shale Layer' and one is 4,350 ft deep drilled down to the "Shale Layer", gas.

LADERA RANCH CA DRINKING WATER STORAGE TANKS UNDERGROUND at Mission Hills Park 29361 Bell Pasture Rd Ladera Ranch, California provides drinking water that meets all state and federal safety standards claims the Santa Margarita Water District. There is a kids park located at Bell Pasture Road directly atop local municipal water storage tanks. One primary subterranean tank stores 4 million gallons of potable drinking water. A secondary tank holds 900,000 gallons of recycled water dedicated to local landscape irrigation. Orange County CA approved the Ladera Ranch master plan in 1997, which paved the way for ground development, planning, and permit gathering to begin in 1998. It has been discovered that wildcatters drilled two oil & gas wells in Ladera Ranch CA, one was deep drilled to 8,365 feet in 1961 and then plugged & capped (P&A) in 1962 classified as a dry hole (DH). The other one was drilled down to about 4,350 feet on Citrus Lane in 1921.

WHIPSTOCKING OIL WELLS UNDER LADERA RANCH CA: Ladera Ranch CA has two old oil & gas wells from the 1920's and the 1960's covered up by roads or homes, one well near Poets Park is drilled down 8,365 feet or 1.5 miles into the earths crust. Whipstocking was definitely used in California during the 1960s to drill and sidetrack wells to depths well over 8,000 feet. In the early 1920s, drillers aiming for deep reservoirs frequently exceeding 4,000 feet in fields like Signal Hill and Huntington Beach did not intentionally drill at an angle. However, they realized their deep vertical wells were naturally deflecting and crooked. 

By the late 1920s and early 1930s, pioneers like H. John Eastman revolutionized the industry by using oriented whipstocks deliberately. By the 1960s, whipstocking was no longer an experimental trick; it was a highly precise, standardized engineering tool used globally and extensively in California. By the 1960s, oil fields in regions like the Los Angeles Basin, Wilmington, Huntington Beach and the Central Valley were routinely being drilled down to 8,000–12,000+ feet, like in Ladera Ranch CA.

State oil and gas records indicate two deep, historical wildcatter wells lie beneath Ladera Ranch, California—one drilled to roughly 8,365 feet down near/under Merriweather Place and Poets Park in 1961, and another drilled down to about 4,350 feet on Citrus Lane in 1921. These old subterranean wells trace back to exploratory drilling before the master-planned community was carved out of Rancho Mission Viejo in 1998. The two oil wells appear to have been re-capped in 2001 and 2002 during construction of Ladera Ranch, they were known to be there. The Ewing sarcoma cancer cluster situation in Ladaera Ranch has now drawn federal attention, as First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli has called on the Environmental Protection Agency to investigate.


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