BUFFALO TWP — The township supervisors have approved a natural gas well pad, with up to five wells atop it, on Howes Run Road.

The property is owned by the Harold G. and Dorthea E. Harvey estate and is zoned A-1 for agricultural use.

The supervisor’s approval Wednesday night followed a hearing in which only one person spoke.

Terry Cunningham, who lives on Harvey Road, where driller XTO Energy’s vehicles will access the site, alleged large trucks accessing existing township drill sites do not operate safely, driving in the middle of narrow Harvey Road, for example, in addition to other concerns.

“I don’t want to begrudge any of my neighbors making money, but the idea of having wells right next to my house, I don’t like it,” Cunningham said.

According to Kevin Brucha, a regulatory coordinator for driller XTO Energy, wells on the new site will use water from one of three sources: an artificial pond of 2 million to 3 million gallons, which construction for another well site was approved last year; water trucked in and stored on site, if the pond is not built; or water pumped in from existing utility lines.

Cunningham said the traffic required to support the wells, up to 50 trucks a day, according to Brucha, would cause traffic woes.

“Six hundred trucks (the amount needed to fill the proposed pond), two million gallons of water, there’s a lot of room for error there,” Cunningham said.

Still, the five supervisors approved the project, contingent upon road bonds being posted and negotiation of an excess maintenance agreement to pay for road damage.