A lithium well just outside Green River spurted substantial amounts of water on the afternoon of March 8, according to several eyewitness accounts.
Water pools by Blackstone Minerals well operation in Green River on Friday, March 8.
A spokesperson for the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, Ashley Sumner, said the same day that her office is looking into the incident but doesn’t “have any information to share at this time.” He did see some water flowing in the wash upstream of the well operation, as well as water bubbling out of the ground downstream.Christine Sheeter, another Green River resident, said she observed “large puddles of water” around the well site.
Fallon Jr. said he spoke with another employee who guessed they had hit river water because the drill operation was still shallow.Per Blackstone Minerals’ draft injection permit with the Utah Division of Water Quality, the company is drilling thousands of feet below the Earth’s surface into a layer of brine, which is then pumped aboveground so lithium can be extracted through a novel, largely untested process called direct lithium extraction.
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