We are encouraging everyone who lives in and around Aurora to attend an emergency Community Town Hall this Saturday, April 13th. This is where you can learn more about efforts to block the drilling application for 166 new fracking wells near the Lowry Superfund site and the Aurora Reservoir. State regulators are accepting public comment until 5/3/24, after which time a final decision will be made. Join Colorado Rising and our friends at Save the Aurora Reservoir to learn more about what can still be done:
This fracking application is intensifying concerns about the dangers of drilling so close to homes, schools, the Lowry Superfund site and the Aurora Reservoir (drinking water source for 390,000 people). Get more information on the situation by reading article, and article, or visiting the STAR website. We urge you to send comments to the O&G regulators at ECMC (here are some talking points). It is imperative that state regulators at ECMC hear us and understand that we will not tolerate more fracking in our neighborhoods and more destruction of our environment. Please share this invitation to attend the Town Hall with your friends and neighbors – so everyone can be heard on this important issue. |
Background: In October 2022, Civitas Resources applied for an oil and gas extraction project in unincorporated Arapahoe county, known as the Lowry Ranch Comprehensive Area Plan. This plan would drill up to 166 wells on 12 new and existing well pads. The drilling and high pressure fracking operations would encroach on the Lowry Superfund site – where millions of gallons of toxic waste sit in 78 unlined trenches. The danger is that seismic activity or leaks caused by fracking could cause the toxic waste to leak into the aquifer system that millions of Coloradans use for drinking water. Colorado Rising and STAR continue to coordinate the resistance to this drilling application.
