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West Elk Mine 2014 Annual Hydrology Report 27 <br />North Fork. Flow is variable and does not follow a seasonal pattern. Hydrologic <br />monitoring at this spring began in 1999. <br />3.2.2.3 Spring E10-2 <br />Spring E10-2 is located on a hillside east of an unnamed drainage tributary to the North <br />Fork between Sylvester Gulch and Box Canyon (Map 2). This spring is situated in <br />landslide material below a fractured sandstone cliff north of the Box Canyon mine panels <br />area. Low flows have occasionally been measured at this spring in response to spring <br />runoff, but it has been only a seep or dry for most of the period of record. Hydrologic <br />monitoring at this spring began in 1996. <br />3.2.2.4 Spring 15-1 <br />Spring 15-1 is located on the west side of an unnamed drainage tributary to the North <br />Fork between Sylvester Gulch and Box Canyon (Map 2). This spring is situated north of <br />the Box Canyon mine panels area. The spring issues from alluvium and water is present <br />as a slow seep only during peak flow months. Hydrologic monitoring at this spring <br />began in 1996. <br />3.2.2.5 Spring G -la <br />Spring G -la is located in Sylvester Gulch on the west side of the drainage, north of the <br />northeast mine panels area (Map 2). It issues from alluvium and is seasonal with <br />moisture present only during periods of snow melt or peak flow. Hydrologic monitoring <br />at this spring began in 1983. <br />3.2.2.6 Spring G-20 <br />Spring G-20 is located in middle Sylvester Gulch on the east side of the drainage. It is <br />located east of the mine facilities and northwest of the Box Canyon mine panels area <br />(Map 2). It issues from alluvium or landslide material and disperses water through a <br />grassy area. The spring has been dry since WY 2009. Hydrologic monitoring at this <br />spring began in 1979. <br />3.2.3 Springs above the B -Seam in the Jumbo Mountain Area in the <br />North Fork of the Gunnison River Drainage Basin <br />3.2.3.1 Spring CR -12 (Decreed Spring #12) <br />Spring CR -12 is located in Lone Pine Gulch in the northwest mine panels area (Map 2). <br />It issues from alluvium on the south side of the gulch. This is a perennial spring, but the <br />volume of flow diminishes in summer and autumn. This spring has been monitored since <br />1993. <br />3.2.3.2 Spring G -26a <br />Spring G -26a is located in Lone Pine Gulch in the northwest mine panels area (Map 2). <br />This spring issues from alluvium and flows into a small pond. Measurable flow above a <br />trickle has not been observed at this spring since WY 1999. This spring has been <br />monitored since 1980. <br />June 2015 HydroGeo, Inc. <br />