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Have You Been Affected by Energy Development?

- April 22, 2009 6:00 am EDT

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Fort Lupton, Colo., resident Jesse Ellsworth was able to light the water coming out of his kitchen tap on fire. Now he and at least 28 other residents in small farming communities northeast of Denver who fear they have gas in their water have turned to the energy companies and the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for answers.

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This story was co-published with the Denver Post and also appeared in that newspaper on Wednesday, April 22, 2009.

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The Garfield County Study

Study's Conclusion: Review of Phase II Hydrogeolgic Study, Prepared for Garfield County, by Geoffrey Thyne, Dec. 20, 2008
Phase I Hydrogeologic Characterization of the Mamm Creek Field Area in Garfield County (PDF), Prepared for Board of County Commissioners, Garfield County, Colo., March 23, 2006
Phase II Hydrogeologic Characterization of the Mamm Creek Field Area, Garfield County, Colorado (PDF), S.S. Papadopulos & Associates, Inc., Boulder, Colo., September 2008
Appendix A: Garfield County Hydrogeologic Characterization Study -- Phase II Field, Sampling Plan for Task 1 (PDF)
Appendix C: Task 1 and 2 Groundwater Sample Laboratory Analytical Reports (PDF)
Appendix D: Task 1 and 2 Gas Composition and Methane Isotope Laboratory Analytical Reports (PDF)

Document Dive

Update on the Ongoing Investigation of the Presence of Methane Gas in Water Wells in Laramie/Fox Hill Aquifer (PDF), From Colorado Oil & Gas Commission's David S. Neslin to the Weld County Commission, April 13, 2009
Report on the Investigation of the Natural Gas Invasion of Aquifers in Bainbridge Township in Geauga County, Ohio (PDF), Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mineral Resources Management, Sept. 1, 2008
Natural Gas Migration Problems in Western Pennsylvania (PDF), The Pittsburgh Geological Society
Methane Explainer (PDF), Information on Toxic Chemicals, State of Wisconsin
Low-Cost Apparatus for On-Site Monitoring of Methane in Ground Water (PDF), by Samuel S. Harrison, Spring 1986
Contamination of Aquifers by Overpressuring the Annulus of Oil and Gas Wells (PDF), by Samuel S. Harrison, May/June 1985

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