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2/4/2016 <br />State.co.us Executive Branch Mail - Fwd: Water well standards <br />STATE, OF Hernandez - DNR Alysha <alysha-hernandez@state-co-us> <br />� SOLO R�'AI O ' <br />Alysha - <br />Please file under Southfield SL -04. <br />Rob <br />Coat Regutatory Program <br />P 303.666.3567, extension 3113 1 F 303.33203106 <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215, Denver, CO 30203 <br />rob.zuber@state.co.us I http://mining. state. co. us <br />---------- Forwarded message ---------- <br />From: W D Corley, Jr. <ajjc@att.net> <br />Date: Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 12:40 PM <br />Subject: Water well standards <br />To: Allen Weaver <alweaverefci@gmaii.com>, Rob Zuber- DNR <rob.zuber@state.co.us> <br />Al and Rob, <br />With regard to the Revision to Bond Release Application No. 4 (SL -04) dated Jan 29, 2016, concerning our new <br />water well, it is correct that the EPA does not regulate water standards in Colorado. The EPA delegates that <br />authority to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. The new well does not meet the <br />CDPHE drinking water standards. <br />However, there is an error in the Revision. It states that a replacement well was drilled for us. The DRMS rule <br />and regulation 4.05.15 clearly states that any person who conducts surface or underground mining activities <br />shall replace the water supply of any owner of a vested water right which is proximately injured as a result of the <br />mining activities in a manner consistent with applicable State law. The old well, Colorado permit number <br />119459, is a vested water right. This well was undermined and that panel was pillared. EFCI did not monitor our <br />old well for subsidence, but the closest subsidence monitoring point did subside. The old well <br />water was potable. Therefore the new well water which is not potable cannot be construed to be a replacement. <br />Also rule 4.05.15 uses the specified words of water supply and not just a new well. The new well is at an <br />isolated location with no infrastructure or conduit to the house where the old well water was utilized, and it is not <br />a water supply. <br />realize that George Patterson told all of us at the Dec. 4, 2015, inspection that EFCI was going to install <br />the water pipeline from the new well to the existing water pipeline, but because of the reclamation deficiencies <br />that I have raised recently they were now not going to finish the water supply. <br />Doug Corley <br />https://mail.googl e.com/m ai I/u/0/?ui=2&i k=e29129fcb5&view=pt&search= i nbox&th=152a8a8475aO28ad&si m l=152a8a8475aO28@d 1 /1 <br />