WSPC06949

• File Number: 8276
• Description: Colorado River-Salinity Projects and Issues Located in Colorado
• State: CO
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 10/31/1974
• Title: Colorado River Salinity White River Meeker and Piceance Creek Wells 1971-76-Summary of the Meeker Dome History
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

pressure again

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forced

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salt flow from the Meeker well into the river.

From the time that the flow was terminated at the Marland well until

1968. the upper portion of the cased well was dry. according to

local sources. After the Meeker well was plugged, water again rose

in the casing of the Marland well. There is no measurable flow at

the well head. although water seeps from the rusted casing in many

places.

3. In 1945, the Stanolind Oil and Gas Company drilled the Scott

#1 oil test by rotary methods to a depth of 6.645 feet for a test

of the Leadville or Madison limestone. The Weber sandstone zone

was adequately cased off and no leakage has been noted. The well

was plugged following completion as a dry hole. The well was drilled

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about 450 feet southwest of the Marland well and located in the

NE~. SW~. Sec. 20. T€I 1 N<J' RI) 93 Wj (, fl~

4. From 1957 to 1960. an operator by the name of Nick Kritsas
one and one-half
drilled two test wells aboullx~ miles north of the foregoing well.

Cable tool methods were used but could not cope with salt water

problems and subsequent XR~ lack of funds. The Kritsas #1 was

drilled to a depth of 1.665 feet into the Entrada sandstone and was
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located in the HEk~xNt NE~. NW~. Sec. 17, T(;) 1 N"J. Rc;::; 93 WJJ The

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southwest in the Sw~. NW~, Sec. 17. T0 1 N~, R~ 93

mile to the
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W0.1\ to a depth of

Xixix Kritsas #2 was drilled about one-fourth of a

1,130 feet in the Morrison formation. Appearance of salt water in

these wells in formations higher in the geologic section by several

hundreds of feet is evidence of vertical and lateral migration of

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