County's Proposed Gas/Oil Regulations Making Way Through Pipeline

Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo. › December 23, 2011

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Summary

For a little light reading over the holidays, head to the El Paso County website and dig into the 36-pages of regulations and procedures that are being proposed to govern gas and oil drilling in unincorporated parts of the county.

Or let county project manager and planner Craig Dossey sum up what he believes are the highlights:

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County's Proposed Gas/Oil Regulations Making Way Through Pipeline

- Requirements for comprehensive groundwater monitoring

- A prohibition on surface pits to collect water used in drilling

- And plenty of opportunity for public input along the way.

"It's definitely appropriate for us to allow for pu...

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