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

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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 str...