An artifact of Marcellus drilling's disruptive glory days
JERSEY SHORE, Pa. - Blake and Gerlinde Trimble lived for nearly 30 years in the Riverdale Mobile Home Park outside this curiously named borough. But four years after they were evicted to make way for the shale-gas boom, they hardly recognize the place.
"I'm having some trouble getting my bearings," Blake Trimble, 61, said as the couple wandered through a grassy field where their trailer once stood, identifying traces of raspberries, blueberries, and honeysuckle they had planted. It was their first visit since 2012, when security guards and the state police told residents that after they packed up, they couldn't come back.
"This is weird," said Gerlinde Trimble, 55. "They should have left us alone here."
Of all the tangible reminders of the Marcellus Shale drilling slowdown, about a dozen vacant acres surrounding an operating water-pumping station may be among the more poignant monuments to the fizzled bonanza.
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