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Specific School Statistics
Galeton Elementary School
There are 61 wells within one mile of Galeton Elementary School, but the 43 reported oil spills within one mile of the school in the last 4 years are the reason Galeton Elementary is number 4 on our list of impacted schools. Most of these spills were discovered at flowline systems and tank batteries during plugging and abandonment of old wells before the the well blowout incident at the Bishop A07-01 Pad in April 2025.
Grand Valley High School, Parachute
There are 193 oil & gas wells within one mile of Grand Valley High School in Parachute, Colorado. 21 of them were drilled in 2014 at the GM #24-12 pad, less than 1/2 mile northwest of the school.
Salida del Sol Academy, Greeley
There are 52 producing oil & gas wells within one mile of Salida del Sol Academy in Greeley, where 97% of students identify as Hispanic or Latino. The 18-well Ardrey #21-I pad operated by Extraction Oil & Gas was fracked less than a mile south of the school in April 2019. The hydraulic fracturing operations at this pad consumed 105 million gallons of water and 91,000 tons of sand.