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various miscellaneous equipment including a layout area for timber and tools. <br /> (1)(g) All existing disturbances including roads, leveled areas, and the portal area improvements <br /> are shown on Exhibit Map E. No significant additional disturbances including: pit <br /> excavations; mine benches; impoundments; stockpiles; or waste rock disposal area shown <br /> will be constructed. <br /> (1)(h) Limited water will be used in the operation for dust control along the access road, if <br /> necessary, and for underground drilling. It is anticipated that water will be purchased <br /> from the town of Cripple Creek. The short-term operation will require one to two <br /> hundred gallons per day maximum. If mining is ever initiated,then water use will likely <br /> increase, but the amount cannot be estimated until it is determined that a mineable deposit <br /> exists. Then engineers can develop a mining plan, and the plan can be tested in practice. <br /> (1)(i j) As the water land surface is located at an average elevation of just under 10,000 feet, the <br /> water table is estimated to be at an elevation of somewhere just over 6,900 feet, it not <br /> anticipated that the operation will encounter the water table. As discussed above, the site <br /> is located on a topographically high area and there are no perennial or ephemeral streams <br /> located within the permit area. Historically,the existing design of the roads and that of <br /> the mining-related disturbed areas has produced no significant increase in runoff that has <br /> led to the damage of surrounding vegetated areas. Thus,the design of these features are <br /> deemed to be satisfactory. To ensure that no fine-grained materials move off of the adit <br /> area/parking area, a shallow collection area is to be constructed on the waste rock pile to <br /> the northwest of the portal, as shown on Exhibit Map E-1. Since it is not anticipated that <br /> groundwater will be intercepted and no perennial surface waters are located nearer than <br /> one-quarter mile of the permit area, no potential can be seen for the possibility of <br /> producing any injury to any existing water right, either surface or to groundwater. Thus, <br /> the project can be considered to be a zero discharge facility. The only effect concerning <br /> water would be one that is financially beneficial, in that the project would purchase water <br /> from an entity(Town of Cripple Creek)that already has an existing right. <br /> (1)k-1) Per standard good workmanlike practice, and as has occurred previously on the site, <br /> refuse generated by the project will be disposed of properly. Based on historical <br /> experience and testing of samples located on the site, no acid generating rocks have been <br /> discovered within the permit area, and no groundwater is anticipated to be intercepted, so <br /> no discharge of low pH water is possible at this site. This finding is typical of the district <br /> overall. As discussed above, there should be no significant affect of the hydrologic <br /> balance from this site. <br />