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WELD COUNTY ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES
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GREELEY, COLORADO 80631
September 2, 1993 CASE NUMBER: USR-1032
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Enclosed is an application from Basin Operating Company for a Site Specific
Development Plan and a Specia] Review permit for a water injection well. The
parcel of land is described as part of Section 3, T1N, R68W of the 6th P.M., Weld
County, Colorado. The location of the parcel of land for which this application
has been submitted is approximately 1/2 miles south of State Highway 52 and 1/2
mile west of Interstate 25.
This application is submitted to you for review and recommendation. Any comments
or recommendation you consider relevant to this request would be appreciated.
Your prompt reply will help to facilitate the processing of the application and
will ensure prompt consideration of your recommendation. Please reply by
September 16, 1993 so that we may give full consideration to your recommendation.
Please call Greg Thompson, Current Planner, if you have any questions about the
application.
Check the appropriate boxes below and return to our address listed above.
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2.
We have reviewed this request and find that it
does/does not) comply with our Comprehensive Plan for the
following reasons.
We do not have a Comprehensive Plan, but we feel this request
(is/is not) compatible with the interests of our town
for the following reasons:
3. We have reviewed the request and find no conflicts with our
interests.
4. A formal recommendation is under consideration and will be
submitted to you prior to:
5. Y •lase
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TRI-AREA PLANNING COMMISSION
P.O. BOX 363 FREDERICK, COLORADO 80530
September 14, 1993
Mr. Greg Thompson
Weld County Planning
1400 North 17 Avenue
Greeley, CO 80631
Dear Mr. Thompson
Re: Case Number VSR-1032
Tri-Area Planning Commission discussed the following issues
regarding the above captioned application.
A. Referencing items #22 and #23, surrounding area future
development being agricultural and mineral, is not necessarily
correct. The southwest corner of the Highway 52 interchange, a
Frederick annexation, is slated for extensive development. Also,
along the southwest side of Highway 52, there are several present
and future commercial areas. In anticipation of future economic
development, we feel the applicant should be limited to the
specific levels of activity described in the application to avoid
deleterious developmental impacts.
B. Since the affected interchange is already dangerous, and to
avoid traffic impacts on surrounding roads, we feel the
representations of items #5 and #8 are the maximum operating
acceptable conditions. Any increase of these levels should
compel review of the application.
C. Item #6 refers to an employee; therefore, under items #7 and
#8, aren't potable water and a septic system a possible addition?
D. Statement #24 fails to consider the inaccuracies in the
mapping of old mining sites and the subsequent potentials of
fluid migration resulting from subsidence effects. Is everyone
confident that there will be no geologic impact from the area
covered by the old Puritan mine?
In this area, we are particularly concerned with the development
of Class II wells and then an application to Class I as
occurred on the Suckla property. Q
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Mr. Greg Thompson
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September 14, 1993
Also, questions were raised as to policy inconsistencies since no
one was apprised of the injection well contiguous to Dacono near
Elliot's Wrecking yard. This site is even closer to the mapped
areas of the Sterling and Boulder Valley mines.
The Commission voted to approve with the preceding reservations.
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Tri-Area Planning Commission
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1. The Site Specific Development Plan and Amended Special Review Permit is for
an oil and gas support facility (brinewater injection well disposal) in the
A (Agricultural) Zone District as submitted in the application materials on
file in the Department of Planning Services and subject to the development
Standards stated herein. The facility shall be permitted to accept a
maximum of 1,000 barrels of brine water per day.
2. Approval of this plan may create a vested property right pursuant to
Section 90 of the Weld county Zoning Ordinance.
3. A manager, knowledgeable in operating an injection well, shall be on site
when the facility is receiving waste.
4. A safe and adequate sewage disposal system shall be available on the
facility premises. A vault system shall be acceptable.
5. A safe and adequate fresh water supply shall be available on the facility
premises.
6. A three (3) foot by four (4) foot sign shall be posted at the entrance gate
listing wastes accepted, hours of operation, and twenty-four hour emergency
telephone numbers.
7. The name of the facility at which the filters will be disposed and copies
of any required analysis shall be provided to the Weld County Environmental
Protection Services Division.
8. No disposal of waste other than Class II, as defined by the Environmental
Protection Agency is permitted. Any change from the approved Class II use
would require an amendment to this Special Review Permit.
9. The maximum permissible noise level shall not exceed the industrial limit
of 80 dB(A), as measured according to Section 25-12-102, CRS.
10. Fugitive dust shall be controlled on the site.
11. The facility shall provide a written document to the Weld County Health
Department from the Colorado Oil and Gas Commission verifying that the
facility and well were adequately constructed to handle the proposed waste
volumes.
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12. A detailed diagram of the injection well which has been approved and
permitted by the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission shall be submitted to
the Weld County Environmental Protection Services Division for review and
documentation.
13. Prior to any injection of waste into the well, a copy of the drilling log
must be submitted to the Weld County Environmental Protection Services
Division.
14. Prior to pressure testing at the facility, the Weld County Environmental
Protection Services Division shall be informed of the specific dates in
order to observe the process.
15. A spillage retention berm shall be constructed around each tank battery.
The volume retained by the spillage berm shall be greater than the volume
of the largest tank inside the berm. The surface area within the tank
battery berm shall be constructed of at least 24 -inch, compacted or insitu
earthen materials or other low -permeability materials, so as not to exceed
a seepage rate of 1 X 10-7 cm/sec. The operator shall have available
suitable evidence that a completed lining meeting these requirements is in
place.
16. All chemicals stored on site shall be stored in locked buildings, on an
impervious surface, provided manufacturer recommendations for safe storage
and handling are in accord. In any event, manufacturer recommendations
will take precedence.
17. The surfaces around the unloading disposal area shall be constructed of an
impervious material and graded to insure that all spilled waste is
contained within the unloading pad and associated containment features.
18. The facility shall be entirely fenced and shall maintain locking gates
during periods when the facility is closed.
19. Any analysis of waste shall be forwarded to the Weld County Health
Department, Environmental Protection Division. The Division reserves the
right to require additional, more extensive monitoring at a later date.
20. The facility shall maintain compliance with the Treatment and Disposal
Methods for the Waste Materials Associated of Oil and Gas Exploration and
Production Regulations.
21. This facility shall comply with the laws, standards, rules and regulations
of the Air Quality Control Commissions, The Water Quality Control
Commission, the Hazardous Materials and Solid Waste Division, the Colorado
Oil and Gas Commission, and any other applicable agency.
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22. The facility shall accept waste form 7:00 a.m. to 8:00
p.m.
23. Upon cessation of injection activities, a detailed closure plan shall be
submitted to Environmental Protection Services for review and approval.
This shall include the manner in which the well will be plugged and
abandoned, as well as specific details regarding reclamation of the
property.
24. All construction on the property shall be in accordance with the
requirements of the Weld County Building Code Ordinance.
25. Personnel from the Weld County Health Department and Weld county Department
of Planning Services shall be granted access onto the property at any
reasonable time in order to ensure the activities carried out on the
property comply with the Development Standards stated herein and all
applicable Weld County Regulations.
26. The Special Review area shall be limited to the plans shown herein and
governed by the foregoing Standards and all applicable Weld county
Regulations. Major changes from the plans or Development Standards as
shown or stated shall require the approval of an amendment of the Permit by
the Weld County Planning Commission and the Board of County Commissioners
before such changes from the plans or Development Standards are permitted.
Any other changes shall be filed in the office of the Department of
Planning Services.
27. The property owner or operator shall be responsible for complying with all
of the foregoing Development Standards before additional barrels of brine
water are accepted. Noncompliance with any of the foregoing Development
Standards may be reason for revocation of the Permit by the Board of County
Commissioners.
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STATE OF COLORADO
COLORADO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Division of Minerals and Geology
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Street, Rm. 715
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone (303)866-2611
FAX (303) 866-2461
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September 14, 1993
Mr. Greg Thompson
Department of Planning Services
1400 N. 17th Avenue
Greeley, CO 80631
Roy Romer
Governor
Ken Salazar
Executive Director
Michael B. Long
Division Director
Vicki Cowart
State Geologist
and Director
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Dear Mr. Thompson:
Re: Use By Special Review -Oil Field Produced Water Disposal Facilities.
We have reviewed the materials submitted on the above referenced matter as well as the general and engineering
geology of the site.
Our comments presented below are not intended to discuss or infer the appropriateness of the actual disposal
by injection of the water as this is the purview of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
With respect to the geologic hazards or constraints associated with the proposal, the applicant erroneously states
that the facility is not located in a geologic hazard overlay zone, when, in fact the site us underlain by room -and -
pillar workings of the Puritan coal mine.
We point out this error as a matter of correction and not to imply that there is any potentially adverse
relationship between the proposed disposal at a nominal depth of 5000 feet and the abandoned mine works at
a nominal depth of 200 feet.
Rather, we see no significant potential for geology -related problems associated with this proposal and we have
no objection to its approval.
Yours very truly,
Jeffrey L. Hynes
Senior Engineering Geologist
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September 13, 1993
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This facility lays in the middle of the section. Truck traffic will ingress
and egress the location by existing Hwy 52 south onto I-25 frontage road
approximately one-half mile and west to the location.
Maximum number of users: The expected normal operation of the facility
will be six water trucks each day. Basin Operating Company will be the
only user. The hours will be 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
This facility will maintain a secure perimeter with a locked gate.
I have no conflict with this application.
cc: Commissioner Baxter
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Board of County Commissioners October 11, 1993
Jeff Stoll, Director, Environmental Health
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On Tuesday, October 5, 1993, a hearing was held before the Planning Commission
concerning the Site Specific Development Plan and Amended Special Review Permit
for Basin Operating Company (USR-1032). At that time the Planning Commission
amended two staff recommendations which are of concern to the Division. Those
recommendations follow as originally stated by this Division:
3. A manager, knowledgeable in operating an injection well, shall be on
site when the facility is receiving waste.
4. A safe and adequate sewage disposal system shall be available on the
facility premises. A vault system shall be acceptable.
The Planning Commission voted to amend them as follows:
3. A person, knowledgeable in operating an injection well, shall be on
the site when the facility is receiving waste.
4. A safe and adequate sewage disposal system shall be available on the
facility premises. A porta-potty shall be acceptable.
I would like to reiterate my recommendation that these conditions be reconsidered
for inclusion in the final permit.
In regards to Staff Recommendation No. 3, the Division believes that in order to
achieve maximum assurance of secure operating practices it is necessary to have
a single designated individual on site during the operating hours of the
facility. Basin Operating Company contends that each driver is "knowledgeable
in operating an injection well" and therefore site supervision by a manager is
not necessary. The Division continues its recommendation for an on -site manager
for the following reasons:
1. A designated on -site manager will provide consistent supervision of all
deliveries to assure that all wastes received by the facility are
compatible with the provisions of this permit.
2. A designated on -site manager will be able to detect malfunctions or upset
conditions which may potentially lead to harm to personnel or others in the
vicinity, destruction of property or negative impact on the environment.
It is the intent of the Division to avoid or minimize the reoccurrence of
fire or explosion such as occurred at Wright's Disposal and Northern
Colorado Brine this past year. The expected production level of 1,000
barrels per day as proposed by the applicant is sufficient to warrant the
added security of an on -site manager.
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3. An on -site manager has been required on similar facilities which, although
classified as commercial, still handle a comparable volume of waste water.
We would ask that you consider returning this recommendation to the final list
of conditions for the permit. However, in lieu of a manager, we would request
that an Access Control Plan be submitted to this Division for review and
approval.
As regards the issue of an adequate sewage disposal system, we would request that
you consider the inclusion of this recommendation as originally stated. The
Division holds fast to this recommendation for the following reasons:
1. The recommendation for a sewage disposal system is consistent with
conditions on all other permits for injection well facilities. Our
recommendation in the past has been for an engineer designed subsurface
absorption system which would necessitate access to a continuous supply of
water via private well or public water supply. However, because of the
minimal usage the system would receive at these facilities, the Division
has accepted the use of a vault privy which is the minimum amount of
treatment allowed in the Weld County Individual Sewage Disposal System
Regulations.
2. According to Section 7.3 of the Weld County Individual Sewage Disposal
System (I.S.D.S.) Regulations, the use of portable chemical toilets in
permanently occupied buildings shall be prohibited except during
construction or under emergency circumstances with the approval of the
Health Officer. The minimal level of sewage treatment which the Division
could allow would be a vault privy. The use of a portable chemical toilet
in this situation would have to be approved through the variance procedure
as provided in Section 3.11.C. of the Weld County I.S.D.S. Regulations.
3. According to Section 3.17.F. of the Weld County I.S.D.S. Regulations, no
person shall construct or maintain any dwelling or other occupied structure
which is not equipped with adequate facilities for the sanitary disposal of
sewage without endangering the public health. "Adequate facilities" is
defined as being within 200 feet and under the same ownership. The
applicant contends that this condition is unreasonable because the facility
is proposed to be unmanned and adequate toilet facilities are available
four miles away from the site. The Division feels that the deletion of
this condition would not be consistent with the County Ordinance,
especially if the Board decides to require an on -site manager.
Thank you for your consideration of the above mentioned concerns. If you have
any questions regarding these matters, do not hesitate to call me at Extension
2231.
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