BROADVIEW HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Ohio's natural gas boom is continuing as a drilling rig moves into another local neighborhood.

Residents in Broadview Heights fought against it for months, but on Friday the drilling began, practically in their back yards.

The natural gas wells are being drilled just a few hundred feet from some of the homes. Even though neighbors continue fighting the wells, the state of Ohio continues to approve them, reported On Your Side investigator Duane Pohlman.

A natural gas derrick began setting up to drill Friday morning just 85 feet from Susan Fowler's property line.

"It's unbearable when they drill this close to your home," Fowler said.

The homeowner, who has an engineering degree and is a mother to two small children, fought the drilling and lost.

Now she worries what the well, and three others like it, will mean to her family.

"I can't explain the anguish to know that I am sitting in front of four potential gas wells: trucks going back and forth day and night, the noise, the risk to people's children and pets," Fowler said.

Cutter Oil is sinking the wells in the neighborhood. Pohlman tried to get a comment from owner C.J. Cutter but nobody from the company would talk.

Other companies are racing to drill in the Broadview Heights neighborhood, too. An oil derrick is operating nearby.

Nearly two years ago, an On Your Side investigation revealed how the Ohio Department of Natural Resources is giving a virtual rubber stamp to this kind of drilling.

While most of the wells are safe, increasingly the wells are springing dangerous leaks.

In July, a well in Mayfield Heights began spewing a huge plume of natural gas. Other leaks have blown homes off their foundations, including one in Bainbridge.

But the state of Ohio continues issuing thousands of permits despite complaints from neighbors.

Neighbors said they fell like the state sold them out, and because of that, the homeowners feel stuck.

"I would never have bought here if I had any inkling this would happen," said Fowler.

State Sen. Tim Grendell, who has been fighting this kind of drilling, told NewsChannel5 that the drilling in Broadview Heights is "a clear example of how the state is failing to protect people."

Pohlman said he will be talking to Grendell next week about the push for a new law to change the drilling landscape in Ohio.