Colorado Springs Gazette
May 25, 2008,

Kent Smith hasn't drawn a drop of water from his well in a year. But the well has produced plenty of methane, an explosive and poisonous gas that, at one point, blasted from his wellhead with the roar of a car engine. "When you have water taken away, it changes everything," said Smith, 64, a retired teacher who moved here from Castle Rock to be a self-described "cowboy" and keep horses amid the splendor of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains....

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