Residents Raise Concern Over Pipeline Repair

Phillip Stokely was just a boy in 1972, when his father's house in Clark County was damaged by construction of a crude-oil pipeline through the north edge of the property. Now, 40 years later, Stokely owns the house, and he's afraid the same thing will happen all over again. Marathon Petroleum is replacing parts of the pipeline, and it wants to route a new section of pipe past the south end of Stokely's home. The company's plan would have put the edge of the pipeline right-of-way only about 15 feet from the house's foundation. Marathon recently agreed to move the right-of-way back to about 70 feet from the house. Stokely doesn't like it but says he can probably live with it.