Re: Beware: Gas Co. has new laws for pipeline on your land

Posted by JD Seller on March 25, 2018 at 09:29:43 from (208.126.189.95):

In Reply to: Beware: Gas Co. has new laws for pipeline on your land posted by Fritz Maurer on March 25, 2018 at 07:20:09:

I am darn glad I do not have any land with pipelines on it. If they ever try I will fight them all I can to keep them off. I know first hand the trouble these darn things can cause. I have been the executor twice in my life. The first was for an elderly spinster Great Aunt. Right as she passed away she signed an easement for a cross country gasoline to be put on her property. I know all she was thinking of was the "MONEY" she was getting. She had no real idea of how it would effect her land for the future. It took three years to get things settle as the pipeline was being put in as this was going on. I do not know if ALL installations were like this one but it was a total nightmare. The cut and plugged the entire tile system for half the farm. Turned good farm land into swamp as these same lines carried water from several farms so it all dumped on my Great Aunts ground. Had to take them to court twice to get them repaired. Fences torn out and not repaired or replaced. Another trip to court. Then the big issue was the pipe was to be a minimum of six foot deep so there would be at least four foot of ground on top of it. On the back forty they cut across the entire field. Using a regular long screw driver I could probe the top of the pipe at around 18 inches under ground. Talked to the contractor as they were laying it and they blew me off stating they were digging six foot by the GPS an I was wrong. This caused the FIRST trip to court. Turns out the line was shallow along much of the route. Thankfully this was found before any gas was in the line. They had dig along side of the pipeline and put it at the correct depth. After everything was done we where able to sell the land. It went for a reduced price because of the pipeline easement. Her estate lost $50K on the deal. She received $25K for the original easement. The legal fees and reduce value cost over $75K. This was in 1996-1999.

I am all for progress but the pipeline companies and politicians have gotten together and made your land basically unusable after there is a pipe line put on it. It becomes the line owners and your screwed changing anything to do with it after the fact.

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