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Railroad Commission
Coverage of Railroad Commission in the Nexus archive.
- An old well began gushing oilfield wastewater in a West Texas church parking lot, sparking a costly cleanup
An old well in the parking lot of the First Baptist Church in Grandfalls, Texas, gushed thousands of gallons of oilfield wastewater, prompting the Railroad Commission to plug the wellbore. The incident occurred in a location southwest of Odessa, between Monahans and Fort Stockton.