WSP06704

• File Number: 8276
• Description: Colorado River-Salinity Projects and Issues Located in Colorado
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 10/1/1968
• Author: DOI BOR Region 4
• Title: Colorado River Salinity-White River Meeker and Piceance Creek Wells 1971-76-Upper Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Project-Plugging Meeker and Creek Wells
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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History and Geology of the Wells
The Meeker ,well 19cateq 3 miles east of Meeker, Colorado, in the m,t

Bec. 29, T. IN., R. 93 W., on the right bank of the ,fuite River was

drilled as an oil test well in 19l5 by a group of Meeker residents. Drill-

iug was stopped at a depth of l,835 feet because a flow of salt water was

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encountered which was too large
prepared b~ Empire Oil and Gas.
colored shkes and sandstones.

for the drill rig to control. ^ log was

The fOrIllations were identified as various

The general geolo~ of the area indicates

that the
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well begins near the top of the Morrison forrr.ation and was drilled

the following forrrations:

Morrison sandstone and shale

Entrada sU!ldstone

Chinle shale

Shinarump conglomerate

Moenkopi shale and sandstone

,/eber sandstone

The well likely bottomed in the maroon formation of siltstone and sand-

stone.

~]e Piceance Creek well located l3.l miles above the mouth of Pice-

Bnce Creek in the NWf.-M'it1mt see, 28, T. 1 S., R. 97 W., on the right bank

of Piceance Creek was drilled as an oil test well in 1954 by the General

Petroleum Corporation. Drilling was stopped at a depth of 2,690 feet be-

cause no commercial oil or gas sho.ings were encolmtered. ~le detailed

log shows that the well beeins above the Green River fonf.:J.tion and was

drilled in shale, Jru'.rl, sandstone, and dolomite of the Grecn River and

Wasatch formations.

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