More injections sought despite quakes
Investigation into wastewater well remains open
GREELEY — NGL Water Solutions DJ LLC, whose fracking-fluid disposal well was linked to earthquakes near the Greeley Airport late last spring, has asked to boost by 20 percent the amount of water it can inject underground, despite ongoing low-level quake activity captured by a new state monitoring program.
Since injections were temporarily suspended at the well in June, earthquakes have occurred every month at the 10,400-foot-deep well, according to documents obtained by BizWest through a Colorado Open Records Act request. At least one was nearly as large as the event that triggered…
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