Groundwater District Seek Help Tracking Disposal Wells
Jul 29, 2015
My High Plains - Four years ago, a 64-year-old Dimmit County well spewed roughly 260 barrels of petroleum fluid that killed grasses and shrubs on surrounding ranchland. The likely cause, experts say: injections into a nearby disposal well, a deep underground resting place for millions of gallons of oil and gas waste. Injected at high pressures, the waste migrated below ground, putting pressure on fluids that leaked from the oil well more than a quarter-mile away.
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