
Fair Grounds Road resident Jane Tolomello turned off the recording she made one Sunday afternoon in June of gunfire in the woods behind her house, which is 800 feet away from a proposed natural gas apparatus. "Those shots went on for two hours. Constantly," she told the Dallas Township zoning hearing board Monday. "The police told me there was nothing they could do." On Monday night it was residents' turn to state their case opposing a natural gas metering station about one-third of a mile from the Dallas district schools. Main concerns include age of the 1950s-vintage Transco interstate pipeline would be tapping into, the apparent lack of emergency plans for the district and what would happen in the event of a natural gas emergency. After a series of hearings, Chief wrapped up its testimony on Aug. 22 for a metering station to measure gas going from wells in Susquehanna County to the Transco, which is owned by Tulsa, Okla.-based Williams. Kim Jacobs, who has children in the Dallas schools, was worried about the "small, two-lane roads" to the Dallas schools: Hildebrandt, Conynham and Pear Tree Lane. When students are being dropped off and picked up, the traffic is congested and sometimes backed up to the traffic light on Route 309, she said. Word spreads, and if ever there was an accident or a false alarm, Mother A will call Mother B and pretty soon every parent and caregiver will be converging on the school, Jacobs said. Congestion, if an emergency, would be "times 100 <b>...</b>
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