Farmers waiting for action following complaints to pipeline inspector

If an inspector actually met with Calhoun County landowner Nancy Phillips as was planned Monday, the meeting will come more than a week after Phillips and her renter noticed 2- to 3-foot deep ruts in a field west of Somers.
Phillips said she first asked ISG inspectors to stop Dakota Access contractors from working in the rainy, muddy conditions on Oct. 7. By Oct. 10, the crews were back, compacting the exposed subsoil as they drove large equipment through the field. Phillips took her pleas to the Calhoun County Board of Supervisors on Oct. 11, where she joined four other farmers to beg the board to stop the construction.
The supervisors listened to the farmers, instructing the landowners to take Evan Del Val, ISG’s project manager, who oversees the inspectors in the dozen or so counties in which ISG is working, to the damaged fields. Phillips did that immediately following the board meeting.
And then she waited – for more calls from other ISG inspectors. For someone to come and stop the construction crews from further wrecking her land, which she rents out. For a notice of violation that won’t really do anything, she said. 
Read more in the Oct. 17 edition.