2013-10-28_REPORT - C1981012

• Permit No: C1981012
• IBM Index Class Name: REPORT
• Doc Date: 10/28/2013
• Doc Name: 2012 Annual Hydrology Monitoring Report
• From: New Elk Coal Company
• To: DRMS
• Annual Report Year: 2012
• Permit Index Doc Type: Hydrology Report
• Email Name: LDS
• Email Name: SB1
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

NEW ELK MINE
2012 ANNUAL HYDROLOGIC MONITORING REPORT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
3.0 HYDROLOGIC CONSEQUENCES
3.1 Water Quantity
Page
1.0 INTRODUCTION
3 -1
1.1 Site Description .................. ...............................
1 -1
1.2 Monitoring Program ............... ...............................
1 -3
1.2.1 Surface Water .............. ...............................
1 -4
1.2.2 Springs and Seeps ............... ............................1 -4
1.2.3 Ponds and Direct Discharges ...... ............................1
-5
1.2.4 Alluvial Wells
1 -7
1.2.5 New Elk Mine Water Levels
1 -8
1.2.6 Refuse Disposal Area Piezometers
1 -9
1.2.7 Bedrock Monitoring Wells
1 -9
1.2.8 UST Monitoring and Remediation Wells
1 -10
1.2.9 Inactive Stations
1 -10
2.0 MONITORING METHODS
2.1 Surface Sites
2 -1
2.2 Groundwater Sites
2 -1
3.0 HYDROLOGIC CONSEQUENCES
3.1 Water Quantity
3 -1
3.1.1 Springs and Seeps
3 -1
3.1.2 Purgatoire River System
3 -1
3.1.3 Groundwater
3 -2
3.1.4 Piezometers
3 -2
3.2 Water Quality
3.2.1 Springs and Seeps
3 -2
3.2.2 Surface Waters
3 -2
3.2.3 Alluvial Groundwater
3 -3
3.2.4 New Elk Mine Water
3 -4
4.0 MITIGATIVE MEASURES 4 -1
5.0 MONITORING PROGRAMS FOR 2012 5 -1
6.0 REFERENCES 6 -1
APPENDIX A WATER QUALITY DATA, 2011, FIELD NOTES, LAB REPORTS,
WELL COMPLETION DIAGRAMS
APPENDIX B WATER QUALITY SUMMARY, 1984 - 2011 QUARTERLY
LEVELS /FLOW RATES, PHYSICAL PROPERTIES, CHEMISTRY
APPENDIX C SPRING & SEEP SURVEY