STEAMBOAT SPRINGS – —The potential for water and air degradation, as well as the cumulative impacts of energy exploration, is expected to dominate the conversation Tuesday night as Quicksilver Resources seeks a special use permit to drill the Camilletti oil well on a ranch north of Milner, about 10 miles west of Steamboat Springs.
“Those are the issues that will be discussed most,” county commission Chairman Doug Monger confirmed Monday.
The subject of testing water wells was on the minds of members of the Routt County Planning Commission on April 5 when they voted, 6-1, to recommend approval of the well. Commissioner Andrew Benjamin was the lone dissenter, according to the meeting minutes, saying he could not support the permit application because its conditions of approval did not do enough to require water quality testing.
The proposal for the Camilletti well describes how it would be accessed directly off U.S. Highway 40 by a private road that would cross two small tributary creeks of the Yampa River.
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