Lake Boehmer Toxic Contamination & Environmental Litigation Attorneys: Attorney911 Pursues the Legacy Oilfield Operators Behind the 2,600-Foot Abandoned Well Gushing 200 Gallons a Minute of Hydrogen-Sulfide-Laden Water Causing Headaches and Nausea in Residents Near Imperial, Pecos County, Texas, We Trace the Corporate Successors to the 1940s Drillers Who Left Unplugged Wells and a 1951 Plugging Pledge Unfulfilled, We Secure the Water-Quality Data, Satellite Time-Lapse and Agency Correspondence Before Records Age and Entities Dissolve, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims, Texas Nuisance, Trespass and Toxic-Tort Doctrine With the Continuing-Nuisance Rule That Resets the Clock on Each Day the Discharge Persists — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
Imperial, Pecos County, Texas Toxic Contamination: Who Is Legally Liable for Lake Boehmer’s Poisoned Water, Hydrogen Sulfide Gas, and Aquifer Damage? You live near Imperial, or you ranch land in Pecos County, and a toxic lake that did not exist twenty years ago is now sixty acres wide and growing. The water is three times saltier than the ocean. The air smells like rotten eggs. Your groundwater — the water you, your livestock, and your neighbors depend on — is being poisoned by something the state of Texas says is nobody’s problem. Four agencies have been passing this case to each other since 2003. The Railroad Commission says it is a water well, not an oil well, so its hands are tied. The environmental commission says it does not have active jurisdiction over abandoned water wells. The licensing department says it can notify landowners but cannot enforce anything. The water development board does not even have the lake in its database. Meanwhile, the well keeps gushing two hundred gallons a minute of hypersaline, hydrogen-sulfide-laden water into the shallow aquifer fifty feet below the surface, and nobody has plugged it. What you may not know is that someone — decades ago…