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<br />,..'!t'\ <br />~, "1 <br />"--' <br /> <br />'..'" <br /> <br />t... <br />C\1 <br />I.":) <br /> <br />stock watering may dry up down-dip <br /> <br />of the mining area. <br /> <br />nroundwater pumped from the mine will <br /> <br />be tested prior to its release and <br /> <br />treated if required to meet applicable <br /> <br />Colorado water quality standards. <br /> <br />Surface waters draining the portion of <br /> <br />the mine area not yet revegetated will <br /> <br />become heavily laden with silt and <br /> <br />suspended solids during periods of high <br /> <br />runoff. Comparatively little of this <br /> <br />silt should leave the mine site, however, <br /> <br />due to erosion control measures. Check <br /> <br />dams will retard water flow, thus <br /> <br />reducing erosion and allowing suspended <br /> <br />solids to settle out, Water will ~ltimately <br /> <br />be released, to the greatest extent <br /> <br />practicable, through the existing drainage <br /> <br />systems, Since the overburden does not <br /> <br />contain the sulfur and sulfur-containing <br /> <br />compounds found in the eastern coalfields, <br /> <br />the acid drainage problems typifying these <br /> <br />areas will not develop, <br /> <br />-147- <br />