ADAMS TWP — After being repeatedly tabled over concerns about an abandoned well on the property, the nine-lot Mandera Subdivision received preliminary approval at Monday’s township meeting, June 26.

“When we were here before you last month, you asked us to plug the water well,” said Steve Victor, of Victor Wetzel Associates. “We have done so, and we have filed the paperwork with the state.”

This planned residential development near the Cranberry Township municipal line has been at a standstill since fall, when residents raised concerns about whether an abandoned well on the property was a gas well.

Victor Wetzel Associates submitted a report in April by Core Environmental Associates stating the well was an unused casing buried on the property. The township directed the developer to open and plug the casing to settle the matter.