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"BUI SOOlt the :nud would get <br />thinner and the black Water would <br />begin coming OUt of the same ,een <br />again,!t he said. . <br />: C:ews have now dug trenches <br />~ soon to be covered with nets to <br />keep birds from diving into the <br />black .alty fluid - where they are <br />channeling the flow. the sookes. <br />.men said. . <br />. "We managed to pump it up the <br />hill all last night to the ponds and <br />frac tanks," Lott said. "This week- <br />~nd we'll pump as much as We can <br />to keep (the black water) out of <br />!he stream)." <br />; Current capacitv of the trench. <br />es is 12.000 biurels: Hunt said, and <br />will be increased to 28,000 bar- <br />Fels over the weekend. <br />, Hunts said lhe frac tanks are <br />transporting aboU! 1.000 barrels a <br />lIay to the evaforation ponds at <br />the city landfil in Rock Sptings. <br />But the men said that alternative <br />'dumping sites will have to be 10. <br />cated, because they will soon ex. <br />haust the capacity of the Rock <br />Springs landfill. <br />: Attempts earlier this month to <br />seal the well with cement failed <br />because organic acids in the trona <br />water, and the high pressures with. <br />in the black trona water aquifer, <br />combined to break down the ad. <br />hesive characteristics of the cc- <br />Inent, the agency spokesmen said. <br />. <br /> <br />Saturday. June 20. 1992 <br /> <br /> <br />T::Je unorecedented under. <br />ground blowout occurred ~Iay 28. <br />when BuRei: drillers :argeling an <br />artesian well accidentally tapped <br />the 460 foor;-.d.eel1lrOna water <br />seam. ';.. . <br />LOll and Hunt .said that over the <br />years there ha...e bee:! surface <br />blowouts of the~olac!c. l.iquid, hut <br />. never an illiderground-blowout. <br />. 111e current rupture is situated <br />:. ~b,out ~O fect underground they <br />.. saId; <br />The sodium.rich black water <br />, killed fish :md fish eggs.in con. <br />.. tainen 1llaced alonlZ !lie banks of <br />. Bone Draw in preparation for <br />planting by Trout Unlimited and <br />Wyoming Game a:~d Fish penon- <br />neL . <br />Ironicallv, the drillir,g project <br />under way'was an effoll to im- <br />prove fish habitat in Bone Draw <br />by supplementing the supply of <br />fresh water to the stream. Bone <br />Draw feeds into the Big Sandy <br />River 9.S miles west of FarsoD on <br />Highway 23, and I.S miles south <br />of the Highway. The Big Sandy <br />flows into the Green River. <br />All the tlsh in Bone Draw are <br /> <br />gone, the agency officials said. <br />Water samolcs taken from the Big <br />Sandy show higher levels of salin- <br />ity. the., said, but "aot so high that <br />ttiey pose a danger to humans or <br />wildfife..' <br />The stream b.as been olantcd <br />with fish regularly since 'the late <br />19iOs. but no one could say how <br />:Lany !ish ha ve died ,iuce the spilL <br />Lon said that BuRec is "picking <br />uo the entire tab" for the opera- <br />tion - equipment rental. ccnsuit. <br />in~ "mud eT'l~jn.ee:'s," and the COSt <br />o{transportll1g the fluid to Rock <br />Springs - and that cas Is could go <br />as high as S250,000. <br />"We're renting equipment like <br />crazy," he said. "We're lucky <br />we're in iUI oilfield arca." <br />. :; Meanwhile, the spokesman for <br />. a Denver oil and gas company that <br />. has permits to begin exploratorY <br />. .:drilling this summer (or black <br />.: trona water r..serves said his com. <br />pany may gain data from the acci. <br />dental spill. <br />c ''The last thing we want to do is <br />.spend twenty to thirty thousand <br />dollars (doing a test drill) and find. <br />ing out there's no brine," said <br />Robert Lent, a vice-president of <br />BW AB, Inc. <br />He said his company has still <br />not definitely decided whether to <br />go ahead with the test drilling pro- <br />gram permitted for this su=er. <br />The exact origin of black trona <br />water, which when drilled comes <br />out the same 'color and odor as oil, <br />is unknown. . <br />The most .ommon explanation, <br />however, is that orgllni. material <br />from oil shale sP!l!~bpW' ~tl"into <br />soda beds underetcitlnl ~on- <br />tain sodium brine in their sttata. <br />