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<br />. . <br /> <br />salt water of the Weber formation from the Meeker and Marland wells, <br /> <br />neither of which had been cased off from the artesian flow. <br /> <br />f..., P!""^ {v.WI. <br />5. During~ 1955 to 1957, the James well, also a cable tool test, was <br /> <br />drilled about one-half of a mile southeast of the Marland and <br /> <br />stanolind tests. This well in the SE~, SE~, Sec. 20, T~ 1 N&r, x <br /> <br />to (If'''j <br />R", 93 W~'J\ was bottomed in the Mancos shale at 480 feet, because of <br /> <br />salt water intrusion and complaints by local ranchers that the saline <br /> <br />flow was damaging crop lands below the well. This well and the two <br /> <br />Kritsas tests were cemented and plugged in 1957 and 1969, respectively, <br /> <br />under the supervision of the Colorado Oil and Gas Commission. <br /> <br />':" <br />CoO <br />~ <br />o <br /> <br />6. <br /> <br />In July 1962, the Kern County Land Company drilled a deeper well <br /> <br />farther north on the Meeker Dome to a depth of 7,685 feet for a <br /> <br />Leadville limestone test. Location was in the SE~, SE~, Sec. 8, <br />bPI''! <br />TQ 1 N&, R@ 93 ~~ this test was a dry hole and was abandoned and <br /> <br />plugged in September 1962. There has been no evidence of leakage in <br /> <br />the vicinity of this hole. <br /> <br />XX dome <br />7. The last oil test to be drilled on the EBHe was the Anderson #1, <br /> <br />N <br />C> <br />-:i <br />~ <br /> <br />in september and October, 1972. It was drilled by the Dyco Petroleum <br /> <br />Company to 5,386 feet in the lower Maroon formation. This was to <br /> <br />have been a Belden formation test. The hole is located about one- <br /> <br />half of a mile southeast of the Kritsas <br />r"PM. <br />Sec. 17, TG 1 Ne, Re 93 W@1 By order of <br /> <br />#2 and in the <br />Cot",.).u <br />the F'.~t-~ Oil <br /> <br />NE~, SW~, <br /> <br />and Gas <br /> <br />Commission, ~xeeRHX precautions were taken to adequately cement off <br /> <br />the salt water flows encountered in the Morrison and Entrada formations. <br /> <br />-3- <br />