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Parachute, Colorado is located in Garfield County. Zip codes in Parachute, CO include 81635, and 81636. The median home price in Parachute is $150,000. More Parachute information.

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Wednesday May 15 | Business Journal

Colorado health officials don't plan to fine Williams for Parachute spill

The Colorado public health department says it isn't planning to fine Williams Cos.

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Tue May 14, 2013

Glenwood Springs Post-Independent

Lower Valley trail group wants county funding reinstated

Post Independent Photo/Kelley Cox Against the roar of Interstate 70 traffic, Jeanne Golay helps to conduct a tour of the future bike path in the South Canyon Bridge area Tuesday.

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Sat May 11, 2013

The Grand Junction Sentinel

Authority over faulty pipeline remains mystery

A state regulator recently acknowledged the lack of clarity over what agency, if any, regulates pipelines like the one that's the source of a natural gas liquids leak in the Parachute Creek watershed northwest of Parachute.

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Thu May 09, 2013

Glenwood Springs Post-Independent

Garfield County property owners to see a drop in tax bills

A drop in Garfield County's assessed valuation of anywhere from 10 percent to 40 percent, depending on the type of property, may mean lower tax bills for property owners come next year.

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Glenwood Springs Post-Independent

People move here for beauty, recreation not well pads

As a former certified project planner, I was very interested in how the county was planning for our future.

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Tue May 07, 2013

KJCT

Clifton Water testing for benzene

Officials said that Parachute Creek is a very small tributary to the Colorado River, which is the water supply for the Clifton Water District.

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Sat May 04, 2013

Glenwood Springs Post-Independent

Rancher worries leak could pollute well water

A ranch owner along Parachute Creek, who also is a member of the Garfield County Energy Advisory Board , on Thursday questioned the state's classification of the creek as a "non-drinking water" source.

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Fri May 03, 2013

Glenwood Springs Post-Independent

Garfield County real estate sales dip during first quarter

Real estate sales in Garfield County were down 14 percent through the first quarter of 2013 in terms of dollar volume, although the number of actual transactions was up slightly.

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Thu May 02, 2013

Denver Post

Parachute Creek benzene exceeds safe level after gas pipeline spill

The contamination of Parachute Creek after an industry spill is worsening with the level of cancer-causing benzene exceeding the federal safe drinking water standard.

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Wed May 01, 2013

Glenwood Springs Post-Independent

Residents, experts debate plume

Experts at a meeting here on Monday night sought to give local residents a clearer picture of the science behind efforts to clean up the Parachute Creek hydrocarbon spill, which has contaminated Parachute Creek and led to fears that local water supplies for irrigation and human consumption may be threatened.

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Tue Apr 30, 2013

The Aspen Times

Williams, state officials reassure residents about Parachute plume

PARACHUTE, Colo. - As many as 120 people jammed into the fire house at Battlement Mesa on Monday night to hear the latest news regarding efforts to contain a large spill of benzene and other hydrocarbons along Parachute Creek.

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Mon Apr 29, 2013

Glenwood Springs Post-Independent

State health department taking over Parachute Creek spill investigation

PARACHUTE, Colorado - More than a month and a half after state regulators became aware that a large plume of natural-gas related hydrocarbons were leaking into the soil near Parachute Creek, state officials have concluded that it's time for a change in investigative authority.

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KREX

Officials to Hold Public Meeting on Parachute Creek Contamination

Garfield County officials are planning a community meeting for local residents interested in speaking with state and federal staff about the investigation into Benzene levels in the Parachute Creek.

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Sat Apr 27, 2013

The Grand Junction Sentinel

State health officials to take over probe of hydrocarbons leak

The responsibility of overseeing the investigation and cleanup of the natural gas liquids leak near Parachute will shift from state oil and gas regulators to health officials, authorities said this afternoon.

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Glenwood Springs Post-Independent

Source: EPA probes contamination cause at Parachute Creek

PARACHUTE, Colorado - The Environmental Protection Agency's Criminal Investigations Division is contacting area residents to learn more about the contamination of Parachute Creek, according to a woman who is one of those in touch with the agency.

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Fri Apr 26, 2013

Glenwood Springs Post-Independent

Film festival has a point

THE BUS: A JOURNEY UP NORTH: In the interest of creating a vehicle that's both economically and environmentally efficient, a group of friends converts its traveling school bus so it can run on waste vegetable oil.

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Thu Apr 25, 2013

Boulder Weekly

Colorado 'promotes' natural-gas catastrophe that now threatens Colorado River

Parachute Creek is now officially contaminated with cancer-causing benzene and heaven knows what else.

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Citizen Telegram

Western Memories - McDaniels' reporting background makes him familiar on radio

Residents in Battlement Mesa and Parachute easily recognize Floyd McDaniels' voice from his morning program on KSUN 103.9 FM, the community radio station that serves the Grand Valley area.

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Wed Apr 24, 2013

The Grand Junction Sentinel

Meeting planned on leak near Parachute

Representatives from the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Garfield County Public Health and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will attend to answer questions, review each agency's role in the investigation and cleanup process, and address potential public and environmental ... (more)

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Mon Apr 22, 2013

Denver Post

Parachute Creek aerated to rid water of benzene detected after spill

Crews work at the site of a natural gas seep four miles north of Parachute, Colo., at the Parachute Creek Gas Plant on Monday, Mar.

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