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Ar,e~A' a ;nc MWU-2 Dulling and Completion Report <br />I\l ROllUC'1'ION <br />I i~;~ rrpurl summaries the data and information generated while drilling AmerAlia, Ines <br />nwnitunng well \t\\ 1 -'_ +lurut~ lute Uecemher 1't'>~~ <br />LU( ,\lll)\, Uf•:S('RII'1'IO1,:\VU HIS"GOBI' <br />~ntrn~lra ~1\\'i ~-' ;. located i+n 1'ad 2 in the nurthe:~st corner of the Rock School Lc.uc t l rdrral <br />Sodium Lease C•0119985), Rio Blanco County, Colorado (Figure I ), in the Southwest Quaver <br />+f thc'\orthcost Quarter of Section 2(1, To.vnship 1 South, Range 98 \\'cst, at a ground elevation <br />of b,44U.7 feet (Figure _'). More specifically. nd\VU ? is 1,59(1.2 feet from the north line of <br />Section 20 and 1,91(i.IG feet from the cast line of Section 20. tit\VL! ?was completed as a <br />groundwater monitoring .yell for the Uinta Formation (including u>ngurs of the Green River <br />I urmatiun) at a total depth (fl)t oCG87 feet (Figure ?l. M11\\'l!-'_ is located on the saute dull pad <br />(Pad's as monitoring wells \11\'A-2. MW'B-2, and \I\1'U-'_ (Figure 2). <br />Lang Drilling Company of Salt Lake City, Utah, mobilized Rig LK-2 ~ (atop-drive type with <br />reverse cireulalionl to the M1\'U-2 location on Ueccmber 14, 1999. and commenced drilling a <br />17;-inch-diameter conductor hole personnel Crow Daub K Associates. lnc.. were on site <br />intermittently during drilling and performed the following duties: description of rotas cuttings. <br />measurement of gmundtvater discharge, collection of basic hydrogeochcmical data, and <br />cullccuon oC water samples. Figure 4, which is based on data from 'fables I and 2. sununarizes <br />the Jrilhng htston of ~111'lt-'. Because Daub & .Associates. Inc., personnel ~~erc nut <br />contmuousl} on site during most of the drilling of i\dN'U-"_', fable I is only a summan of the <br />activities. Table 2, which is based on the drillcr's records, is more detailed; however, it Joel not <br />rt~luilc am data for the first ?0 tcet of the hole or the hottom ~_' feet (G+5 to 687 fecu of the <br />ICI: <br />I he 17-inch-diameter conductor hole was drilled to a depth of 20 feet tsith Jry compressed air <br />used as the circulation medium. Stee! surface casing (J-55.40.48 pounds per foot, l0,-inch- <br />uutside-diameter SOD)) teas installed and cemented to the surface on December 14. 1999. <br />Fullrnc;ng insutllation of the drilling assembly (air hammert and supporting surface cyutpntcnt. <br />