I used to live on a farm near Chenango Forks New York. The little 3 foot stream came down some stair step falls and joined a tiny stream in the valley which during hurricane Agness became a quarter mile wide.

On a summer day the 3 foot stream would gently bubble gas which was flammable but posed no poisonous aspects to flora and fauna.

When gas companies asked farmers to sell their gas rights for thousands of dollars, all but one or two farmers took the money.
IF a large tract went up for sale the gas companies would buy lease rights to themselves and put it back on the market.

The area now well over 90% leased to gas companies and the eventual permanent peril to this vast Delaware water shed is now on a fast track to death and destruction.