GLENWOOD SPRINGS — — Lawyers for Colorado Mountain College (CMC) and SourceGas are sparring over whether the CMC junior college district is a quasi-governmental entity and therefore protected by state law from a lawsuit being pressed by SourceGas.
The legal dispute is over a contract between CMC and SourceGas allowing the utility to build a compressor station on a five-acre site on the college’s Spring Valley campus.
The company said the compressors are needed to maintain adequate pressure in gas pipelines serving the Roaring Fork and Eagle valleys.
Following two months of motions from the attorneys, the matter is now set for a hearing in mid-August.
SourceGas and CMC executed a 20-year lease for the compressor station in 2011. But when the project went before the county planning commission in March for permit approval, neighboring landowners, college faculty and students objected. After much discussion, the CMC board of directors rejected a second compressor site and declared the contract invalid in a meeting held May 14.
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