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PHONE 13031 356.4000 EXT. 224
WI Ile P.O. BOX 631
OREELEY, COLORADO X0631
COLORADO
November 29 , .1977
TO: Franklin D. Yoder, M.D.
FROM: Keitha Hubbard, Deputy County Clerk
Office of Clerk to the Board
SUBJECT: Abandoned Landfills
Your request of November 12 , 1977 to the Board of County
Commissioners was forwarded to our office for completion.
The following is a list of closed landfills, according to
our files, and the Town area they served.
R58 T8 S10 SW-SW4 (Raymer)
R62 T7 S8 SEa (Briggsdale)
R64 T4 518 (Kersey)
R65 Ti S11 (Hudson)
R65 T5 528 NW,NW4 (Evans)
R65 T5 S33 (Eaton)
R67 T4 527 N iNW4 &
SW'gNW4 (Johnstown)
R67 T5 S33 (Windsor)
R68 Ti S17 (Erie)
P.68 T2 S8 NE; &
SW;NEn (Longmont)
R68 T2 S25 (Frederick)
R68 T4 527 5W4 (Mead)
If I may be of any further assistance please let me know.
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770341
Weld
/p-p[ / BOARD OF HEALTH
jy/e County Health Department DAVID WERKING, DDS,Greeley
FRANKLIN D. YODER, MD, MPH RALPH PAB, Greeley
Director 1516 HOSPITAL ROAD WILLIAM SLICK, Roggen
GREELEY, COLORADO 80631 DORIS DEFFKE, Greeley
(303)353-6540 DONALD HERGERT, Windsor
ANNETTE M. LOPEZ, Greeley
HERSCHEL PHELPS, JR., MD.,
Greeley
November 21 , 1977 KATHLEEN SHAUGHNESSY, Ault
JOE STOCKTON, Gilcrest
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TO: Commissioner June Steinmark, Chr. NOV 2 1 1977 � ,
Commissioner Norman Carlson Li
Commissioner Ed Dunbar GREELEY. COLOR
Commissioner Victor Jacobucci
Commissioner Leonard Roe "31FROM: Franklin D. Yoder, M.D.
SUBJECT: Methane gas from abandoned landfills
Prompted by a recent discovery in Adams County of high levels of
methane gas in buildings located near abandoned landfills, our department
is investigating the potential danger.
We request data from any available county records as to location of
abandoned or closed landfills in Weld County. We are especially interested
in landfills adjacent to residential dwellings or other buildings. We look
forward to hearing from you.
Thank you for your help in this matter.
FDY/hv
cc John G. Hall , Director, Environmental Health Services
Enclosure: Denver Post 11/20/77 (article)
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State Still Groping =lc w o . R a orsm. cp,
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N e..-'t't 03 With Methane ' Peril IjtidJflflIo
`"vBy BILL-STRABALA from garbage dumps is relatively new. '-Eit, $.°e M ai w " '"' q�,
Denver Post Staff Writer Instances have been recorded in recent 4
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After more than a year; two deaths and Years in Richmond; Va., and Louisville, 0° y d "
11 serious burn cases, officials in Colora- Ky., said Kennerson, who had to 'g-j' a m A y oa. '3
do still grope with the danger of explosive call on the National Association of Coun- ' t y a Q O = I
methane gas being slowly released ties to help investigate the fatal blast last wo 9^ o an C;o » d»O . O
through natural chemical reactions in summer. H d o•9 o o-ut o o'et o_m 0 0 y •
dozens of uncharted underground garbage ONCE THE DANGER was discovered, o ,e y m ,o"..R w o ' ^
dumps. local officials realized the hazard could t rD 014 5 a n a c.x N i
The danger could exist in or near every exist in nearly every city with a landfill o 5 ro' y y o o g o o 0 w
community in the state. o &c ,, x-, o: .a g ti ;o
One area of particularly serious con- dump, and a task force dt set s I; o ❑ v,^ A t ,vn 5.w g w
tive and preventive procedures was estab- i+ w o, n c o o=c(Tom co mcs
corn lies along Sand Creek near East lished. ` 5., 5 0 °'` o 0 m o' A
52nd Avenue and Dahlia.Street in Corn- V-
merce City, where two water line con- There are no funds, no laws, and little ,4 a.
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struction workers were killed and five but borrowed equipment with which con- o „ 7 0 ^cc c 8 w (5 riti
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were burned last June. cerned officials can work. The Tri-County K n o ,b g y a 5 '$. CD OF
Mother danger area is in the 4300 health agency, covering Adams, Arapa- • 92, g smi.V Ny� '
block'of South Clay Street in Sheridan, hoe and Douglas counties, has asked that g • ET, u ore H, w e, y
i where six youngsters playing in a storm the matter be put on the governor's call �,? g 1 o H = a-M.w ran O w
sewer were seriously burned when gas to the Legislature next year. M0a n r g, °ti' I*9 y
ignited more than a year ago. Agencies involved in the problem _ PIP
THE. CULPRITS IN both cases—and include all metropolitan safety depart-
ments, the Colorado Occupational Safety
possibly in other unexplained explosions and Health Division, the Environmental
—have been nearby, buried garbage Protection Agency, land-use and zoning
dumps, where decomposing organic ma- commissions and the Colorado Division of
terial creates odorless methane gas which mines.
seeps through the sod and concentrates
m the underground cavities. A spark can IN THE CASE OF the Commerce City t r w
i ignite it. ` explosion, the gas traveled from a dump { z
I Ironically, the'methane results from formerly operated by Landfill Inc But „Jim, , ,•• ,, 4 A +� a,-.
art of that property ✓
t laws for cleaner air which banned the P P P Y lies within the city M / `�°�f""
burning of trash at dumps more than a and county of Denver as well as in
decade ago, officials said. Adams County. The refuse buried there h'.•
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'The resulting unburned and buried gar- came from all parts
to Bruce Wilson, environ-parts of the metropolitan F" T
area, accordin
bage, combined with water, now is begin- I--C.
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g mentalist with the • Tri-County health i *" • ' 7•L-' .. '` '
ning to produce explosive gas In . �,
agency.
unpredictable areas, threatening buildings There is no specific statute giving re-
9nd'homes even beyond the boundaries of a
,fie landfills ,'ti Continued on page 14.
"WE CONSIDER IT to be damned ,
serious," said Bob Bowland, acting super-
visor for environmental health with the
Tri-County Health Department.
"."No, I don't consider it (the problem)
under control," said Don Kennerson, fire I - -- - - -
marshal for the South Adams County Fire i' ,a.,, ,,. _. -..„r . .;- r;. „ a- - " ,
District. "We don't know enough about it, ,
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how it (the gas) travels through the l I. _ _. -
ground." F i d:: : i n :: ,+
He has found at least six commercial
buildings in Commerce City where traces , .w:-;•..,, ,r..• .:;. . . .. ,
of the gas have been detected in base-
ments, but he declined to identify them. .
•k THE OCCUPANTS AND building
owners have been notified, and ventila-
tors and alarms have been installed.
The gas most often travels along
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gravel-lined trenches of utility lines feed-
ing into buildings, Kennerson said, often ., - > ' -• �: a :: .:v:k rm`� -C- "°• ' 7 i r"`v r1," `v''
at distances of more than 1,000 eetyfrom
the'edge of covered dumps."-"F" °
Such underground deposits can produce k" 'r - 'i"'`�s"' " • +' ` .nwyq. 'P .y ;lei'
lethal amounts of methane for up to 100 ' I
77-„,years, he Paid. Chemically, it is the same '
OS-Me gas Mat causig explosions in coal
mes.
d'The,disastrous phenomenon of methane
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