Denver Post
March 25, 2008, Nancy Lofholm

Ruth Lindauer sets her lips in a tight line as she gazes at the milky gray water burbling down the cottonwood-lined creek behind her home. She and her rancher husband, Sid, don't know what's in that water — what the spring runoff is carrying down the creek from a giant, filthy monolith of frozen oil-and-gas-well spills melting in a gulch 10 miles upstream. The blackened ice formed from November through February when four oil-and-gas-well pits leaked 1 million gallons of something into Parachute Creek, the source for the Lindauers' irrigation water as well as the irrigation water for the town of Parachute....

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