GLENWOOD SPRINGS— — Potential traffic impacts on Four Mile Road and through Glenwood Springs if natural gas drilling occurs in the Thompson Divide area is chief among the concerns for Glenwood-area residents, according to comments made at a community meeting held Wednesday.
Four Mile, which comes into the southwest end of Glenwood Springs onto Midland Avenue, is one of three possible access points on the Roaring Fork Valley side of the Thompson Divide that could be used by SG Interests to get to and from well pads.
Others include Thompson Creek (Garfield County Road 108) west of Carbondale and Coal Creek west of Redstone.
It’s also possible that traffic could be steered toward Divide Creek to the west, which is already a major haul route for oil and gas industry traffic in that part of Garfield County.
Use of any of the three eastern access routes means traffic would eventually have to make its way onto State Highway 82 and through the heart of Glenwood Springs, said Judy Fox-Perry, a member of the Thompson Divide Coalition (TDC) board of directors, at a Wednesday meeting in Glenwood Springs.
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