IN THE MATTER OF GENERAL RULES AND REGULATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE CONSERVATION OF OIL AND GAS IN THE STATE OF COLORADO, AND RULES OF PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE PERTAINING THERETO AND IN PARTICULAR, WITH REFERENCE TO RULE 323

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Cause No. 1 Type: ENFORCEMENT Order No. 1V-1 (Formerly 1-6)

REPORT OF THE COMMISSION

This cause came on for hearing before the Commission on February 16, 19 7 l.- at 1:30 p. m., in the Envoy Room, Quality Motel, 1840 Sherman Street, Denver, Colorado, after giving Notice of Hearing, as required by law, as the result of letters submitted by Mr. Millard Huey and Mr. Calvin W. Leach, Mayor of Brush, Colorado, charging pollution. of stock water and possible pollution of the water supply of -the City of Brush by operators in the Timpe, Allen, a nd Stagecoach Fields, Morgan County, Colorado.

FINDINGS

The Commission, finds as follows:

1. That due notice of the time, place and purpose of the hearing has been given in all respects as required by law.

2. That the Commission has jurisdiction over the subject matter embraced in said Notice, and of the parties interested therein, and jurisdiction to promulgate the hereinafter prescribed order.

3. That Bel-Air Oil Company, Adkins Oil Company, and Cardinal Petroleum Company, in the Allen, Timpe, and Stagecoach Fields, Morgan County, Colorado, are producing waste liquids in their operations.

4. That testimony . presented at the hearing indicates that because of containing the waste liquids in unlined earthen pits, said waste liquids may be seeping to an underground aquifer and as a result of underground migration of fluids may cause pollution.

5. That in order to prevent possible pollution, Bel-Air Oil Company, Adkins Oil Company, and Cardinal Petroleum Company should either re-inject the oil field waste liquids into the "D" Sand or such waste liquids should be contained in suitable pits lined with an impermeable material in order to prevent pollution.

ORDER

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that Adkins Oil Company, Bel-Air Oil Company and Cardinal Petroleum Company., operators in the Timpe, Allen, and Stagecoach Fields, Morgan County, Colorado, shall desist from discharging oil field waste liquids into unlined earthen pits and that such waste liquids shall be contained in suitable pits lined with an impermeable material or disposed of by subsurface methods.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a plan of the method of containing or disposing of said waste liquids shall be submitted by each operator to the Director for approval; said plan to be submitted within thirty (30) days upon receipt of this order.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Commission expressly reserves its right, after notice and hearing, to alter, amend or repeal any and/or all of the above orders, rules and regulations.

ORDERED this 2nd day of March 1971.

OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF COLORADO

By Frank J. Piro, Secretary