[CPEO-BIF] Methane intrusion causes explosion, Firestone, Colorado

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Firestone explosion's cause revealed to be unrefined gas from abandoned gas line; Gov. orders review

by Mark Belcher, Blair Miller, & Jennifer Kovaleski
Denver Channel (CO)
May 3, 2017

FIRESTONE, Colo. - In an update issued weeks after a home explosion and fire in Firestone claimed two lives, officials said the cause of the explosion was an abandoned oil and gas line in the area of the home. 

Officials said Tuesday afternoon that non-odorized methane gas filtered into the home through a French Drain and Sump Pit due to a cut, abandoned gas flow line from an abandoned well nearby. 

The line hadn't been disconnected from the wellhead and the wellhead hadn't been capped, although flow to the well was off through 2016. Flow resumed in January 2017.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/firestone-investigation-ongoing-cause-revealed-to-be-unrefined-gas-from-abandoned-gas-line

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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