In early November, a Texas-based company called Legacy Reserves LP announced that it would purchase oil and gas properties in Fremont County: primarily properties owned by Encana in the Pavillion area. Late last week, Legacy Reserves pulled out of the deal.
A few years ago, residents of the town of Pavilion began complaining of health problems which they blamed on water contamination. In 2009, when the Environmental Protection Agency began sampling the area’s water, it found diesel and gasoline range organics at low levels, synthetic organic chemicals, high pH levels, and methane with chemical signatures similar to those in the gas production reservoir. There was so much methane, in fact, that it bubbled out of the EPA’s monitoring wells.
