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He Sold Them Water - Drilling Rig That Was Never There

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He Sold Them Water - Drilling Rig That Was Never There

Fear of losing everything is quiet until someone profits from that fear: 47 farm households sent money for six years believing a shared well was coming, yet not one inch of earth was drilled. A padded work order hung on a chained, rusted rig bought for $300 - so why did dozens keep paying for a well that never existed?

In this episode, we lay out the timeline from the first April meeting in 2013 to the arrest in December 2019, following the people, payments, and paper trail that built the scheme. How did a man with real geological data convince a rural community to fund a well that was never drilled?

Person: Thomas Chambers
Person: Erin Marshall
Date: April 2013
Date: December 11, 2019
Case: Clearwater Rural Water Cooperative

- 47 farm households sent money to Chambers over six years for a shared water well.
- Chambers registered Clearwater Rural Services LLC on October 14, 2013 at 4:47 PM and received the first membership check the next morning at 9:02 AM.
- Chambers bought a drilling rig in 2015 for $300 at a farm liquidation sale and chained it to an easement on County Road 7.
- Members paid $1,200 to join and $85 monthly thereafter starting in autumn 2013.
- Erin Marshall paid roughly $6,000 to the Clearwater Rural Water Cooperative.

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