Mike Wireman News Today

Officials with the Upper Black Squirrel Creek Ground Water Management District and Wyoming-based Aqua Geo Frameworks are performing an electromagnetic survey that will provide officials critical information about the aquifers and underground geology of the Upper Black Squirrel Creek Designated Ground Water Basin that spans 354 miles of east-central El Paso County.

Close Water experts have found elevated levels of nitrate in some wells across the Upper Black Squirrel Creek Basin, but not enough data has been collected yet to determine if elevated levels of the compound, which can be dangerous to humans, are trending across the basin, they say. Gazette file

A few wells in the Upper Black Squirrel Creek Basin have elevated concentrations of a potentially dangerous compound, but water experts say possible widespread contamination is not yet an urgent