Home Gas Co. v. Miles

Condemnation proceedings iwere instituted pursuant to section 23-1303 of the Environmental Conservation Law to obtain underground gas storage rights in a natural layer of earth known as the ‘ ‘ Oriskany Sandstone ’ ’ formation some 1,900 feet beneath farm lands owned by defendants in Schuyler and Tates Counties. While defendants’ property covers some 95 acres, the sandstone formation deep beneath the surface is approximately six and one-half miles long and one and .one-half to two miles wide .and some 15 feet thick. This entire egg-shaped area is known as the Wayne-Dundee gas storage field…