GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — State regulators are asking that an energy company be found in violation of oil and gas rules in connection to a leaking pipeline in Garfield County.
The Daily Sentinel reports (http://bit.ly/2gfutKe ) that cleanup work is ongoing in connection to a leak from a steel liquids pipeline operated by Hunter Ridge Energy Services LLC in the North Parachute Mountain area north of Parachute.
In a written response to the state about the alleged violations, the Encana subsidiary wrote that condensate from the pipeline traveled underground about 4,200 feet before surfacing in a spring and flowing on the surface more than a mile north to a stock pond.
The contamination was discovered June 14 during a routine sampling of the spring.
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Information from: The Daily Sentinel, http://www.gjsentinel.com
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