Crews with James Stidham & Associates have been working in the area around the courthouse square for the past couple of weeks, installing monitoring wells in the area for the state Department of Environmental Protection.
The state environmental agency is looking at the gas spills from decades ago when there were fuel pumps at the Wakulla County Sheriff’s Office and Jail when it was in the building where the Tax Collector’s Office is now. A plume of gasoline had reportedly been slowly migrating towards the Sopchoppy water well in the parking lot of the old Courthouse. (Sopchoppy has since closed the well and has a new well near Crawfordville Elementary.) Stidham & Asssociates is reportedly putting in 2 inch wells, 60 feet and 80 feet deep, at 20 locations in the area to determine where the gasoline plume is. (Photo by Lynda Kinsey)
