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Gmail - Water well # 119459 <br />Gm <br />Water well #119459 <br />2 messages <br />Page 1 of 5 <br />George Patterson < efcoal @gmail.com> <br />W D Corley, Jr. < ajjc @att.net> Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 6 :43 AM <br />To: JanetBinns - DNR <janet.binns @state.co.us >, Energy Fuels <efcoal @gwestoffice.net> <br />Janet, <br />Here are some dates relating to the changing function of our water well that I can verify. <br />In 1991 we started experiencing decreased flow from our well. We were aware that Southfield <br />workings had undermined our well. There is no face date for this undermined panel on the <br />Southfield Mine map, but the next panel west has a face date of Oct. 17, 1992. We had a <br />conversation with Energy and were told that the mine could not have been the cause of the <br />decreased well flow. However, Energy had been pumping for several years an unknown amount <br />of water from the well that has become the NWMW. Further checking showed that Energy did <br />not have a permit for their well, and they applied for a State permit on April 10, 1991. Their <br />original permit receipt #324371 requested a pumping rate of 140 gpm, which permit was denied. <br />Subsequently Energy was given a permit #12508 -AD for their well on July 22, 1991. After these <br />events our well continued to have a decreased flow and we had to discontinue pumping. I have <br />not found a definite date when we shut down this well. <br />There are other known facts relating to the NWMW. It was pumping sufficient water in 1991 to <br />request the permit for a rate of 140 gpm. Yet only a few years later the apparent hydrologic <br />changes due to the-mining had altered their well to the point that there was no flow and the pump <br />was removed in about 1996 with the well being converted to a monitoring well. Now Energy <br />claims that this well at the mine void depth is dry. Huge hydrologic alterations certainly have <br />occurred. <br />WD Corley, Jr. <br />