From the Grand Junction Free Press (John Colson):
The Greenback Produced Water Recovery LLC will be building what is technically termed a “solid waste disposal site and facility” on a 40-acre property known locally as the Shaeffer Ranch, about four miles south of Interstate 70, southeast of Rifle. The facility, according to documents on file with Garfield County, will “treat, store and reuse produced water from oil and gas operations.” The facility will occupy about 11 acres of the larger parcel. According to Dan Packard, one of the company’s representatives, produced water will be trucked to the facility from well pads throughout the region, where it will be filtered, separated from any remaining oil and gas, clarified and “air stripped.” It can then be put into the same tanker trucks that brought the water to the facility in the first place, and taken back to the drilling pads for reuse…
Packard said that, once treated, the water is suitable for use in toilets and for hand-washing, and that it will be put to those uses at the facility itself.