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All of the applications for the wells used to dewater were denied by the State Water Engineer and <br />have never been permitted. The North Well was tagged by the Division of Water Resources in <br />1991 and EFCI still used it to dewater until at least 1995 when the DRMS required them to put in a <br />closed loop system. DRMS staff have not confirmed that this system was ever in place. <br />K2T, LLC, needs water to insure that cattle can graze on our reclaimed property, which was the <br />historical use of this property and is the main emphasis of our Southfield's Reclamation Plan. Our <br />uncle, Bert DeFellippie, grazed cattle here and therefore previously had a water source. <br />We request that EFCI drill three water wells for livestock grazing and a new monitoring well into <br />the mine tunnels not into areas that have been retreat mined. These wells need to produce 10 <br />gallons /minute at minimum according to our hydro - geologist. EFCI needs to provide the pumping <br />records at each depth from the driller and monitor each well for five years. MWNW needs to be <br />repaired or replaced because it was likely damaged by roof fall when the continuous miner was <br />buried in 1995 and /or when County Rd 15 subsided. After that date all of the inflow reports are <br />estimated. <br />Phase III and the Surety bond must be extended through completion of these improvements to <br />insure that we have water and can use our property in the future. <br />We request that Newlin Creek be monitored when it is flowing to determine if it is being <br />contaminated by the tailings pile. Monitoring that has been done when there is no water flowing <br />and reported as dry. We believe that this could be partially due of the reduction of only water <br />monitoring's /year through a past TR that the Division approved. <br />We need the Notice of Violation initiated by Janet Binns be enforced and a new monitoring well <br />drilled into the mine workings. This needs to be monitored by EFCI to determine if the mine is <br />filing up with water. We are again requesting a board hearing and believe that the division's <br />extending it through March 2015 is inexcusable. It will have been almost two years since TR 40 <br />was initiated before it was withdrawn by EFCI but the violation has not been corrected. After <br />numerous extensions granted by the Division, this issue needs to be heard by the Board and <br />resolved. <br />The photos by Rob Zuber of the yards of cable that were removed from MWNW by EFCI is <br />documented in his Inspection Report. A piece of 2X4X8 wood has not been removed and is still <br />blocking the PVC pipe. We cannot be sure of how long this circumstance has prohibited accurate <br />monitoring of MWNW but MWNW has been reported dry for 10 years. And the most likely <br />scenario is that MWNW was damaged by roof fall when the continuous miner was buried nearby <br />in 1995 and has never been a functioning monitoring well. Montgomery, Watson and Harza <br />consultants that did the report (September 16, 2002) was obviously not aware of the extensive <br />retreat mining in the tunnels near MWNW. <br />The water in Pond 4 has not been tested by Energy Fuels to see what it may have in it. We are <br />asking it be tested during the next two years for at least TDS, manganese, iron, calcium, nitrates, <br />