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Drilling Fluid Spill, Garden Gulch Colorado - February 2008
Photograph showing waste drilling fluids spilled from a natural gas drilling site in the Piceance Basin of western Colorado (near the town of Rifle and the Roan Plateau). Photo from the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, apparently taken on February 20, 2008. Spill is in Garden Gulch, a tributary to West Parachute Creek. See the DNR's 3/6/08 press release on this event at dnr.state.co.us/newsapp/press.asp?pressid=4783 .
Drilling Fluid Spill, Garden Gulch Colorado - February 2008
Photograph showing waste drilling fluids spilled from a natural gas drilling site in the Piceance Basin of western Colorado (near the town of Rifle and the Roan Plateau). Photo from the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, apparently taken on February 20, 2008. Spill is in Garden Gulch, a tributary to West Parachute Creek. See the DNR's 3/6/08 press release on this event at dnr.state.co.us/newsapp/press.asp?pressid=4783 .