OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – One northwest Oklahoma City homeowner says he’s at his wits’ end with noises and smells coming from an oil well site yards away from his brand-new home – a site that he says no one ever told him would be there.
“The noise, it can be really intense,” homeowner Larry Vargas said.
But Larry Vargas, the problem is more than just noise.
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“The fumes were giving me a headache,” he said. “It smells so strong.
For him, the oil well site that recently sprouted up yards behind his brand-new northwest Oklahoma City home is a nuisance that nobody told him would ever be there.
“We had no clue,” said.
Before he bought the house in a new neighborhood near NW 150 th and Rockwell, he tells News 4 he asked his realtor and even emailed city zoning to find out if there were any plans to develop a then-empty field behind it.
“And they thought maybe it was going to be a storage unit for oil,” he said.