GLENWOOD SPRINGS – — The Garfield Board of County Commissioners appears unwilling to fund construction of a water quality testing well on the property of Silt landowner Lisa Bracken, who claims that gas from a seep has contaminated her water supply.
Bracken, who detected the seep near her home on Divide Creek in 2008, asked the commissioners in a public comment period at their Monday meeting to fund a testing well. Her request comes after a consultant retained by the county to investigate the 2008 seep determined it came from natural, not human, causes.
“We have a lot of other experts who are saying that we’re monitoring it, and things are OK,” Commissioner John Martin told Bracken. “I know this is dear to you, but my best advice is to visit with the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission,” the state agency charged with regulating oil and gas.
Previously, that agency had offered to install a well on Bracken’s property, but Bracken refused, claiming she would have had to allow unrestricted access to her land under the terms of their contract.
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