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Environment, Inc. Page 4 <br /> February 12, 2016 <br /> The logs from the 2005 Annual Report on file shows that for June <br /> 8 , 2005 collection event, notes that between 4/18/05 and 6/9/05 <br /> there was substantial water in the trench caused by the slurry <br /> wall . Review of the four monitoring well observation logs listed <br /> above indicate that in MW#2 the ground water started increasing <br /> above its normal elevation on 2/4/05 and by 6/8/05 it had <br /> increased by 5 . 85 feet above normal . By 10/2/06 the data <br /> indicated the water was one-quarter foot (3 inches) above ground <br /> level . In 2007 & 2008 they list MW#2 as flooded. This same <br /> pattern is consistent for all the other wells including MW##3 <br /> except that it is not flooded by 2007 . These well logs provide <br /> the information that the groundwater elevations were increasing <br /> after the construction of the slurry wall and the Bull Seep <br /> relocation was completed on the area east of the slurry wall . The <br /> D.R.M. S . Enforcement photos presented on Slides 22 thru 26 show <br /> the areas affected by the high ground water/flooding as a result <br /> of AI' s activities on the Orr Property. While they show areas of <br /> open water, what is not really evident are the wetland vegetation <br /> areas where the soil is saturated as a result of the groundwater <br /> reaching to within 18 inches of the surface . I estimate that of <br /> the 4 . 49 acres of the Orr Property, by 2011 when the first <br /> objection was filed that 3 . 29 acres or 73 . 2701 was new wetland <br /> area is based on a 2012 photo that is included in this report . <br /> The argument has been made that most of this wetland area was old <br /> wetlands but if you review the photo maps 1949 thru 2003 only a <br /> very small area in the very northwest corner of the site, where <br /> the Fulton Ditch entered the Bull Seep, could be call legitimate <br /> wetland area (approx 0 . 03ac . ) and this is because it is part of <br /> the confluence of the ditch and the seep. All of this suggests <br /> that the relocation of the Bull Seep and the construction of the <br /> slurry wall have caused an increase in the elevation of <br /> groundwater table on the Orr Property. <br /> From the review of the proposed installation of the drain pipes <br /> thru the slurry wall in June 2015, it appears they are designed <br /> to only remove surface water from the area east of the slurry <br /> wall . This is confirmed in the first paragraph of the report <br /> under System Design. In the second paragraph, they state the <br /> lowest elevation on the Orr Property was believed to be 5038 . 5 <br /> yet the invert of the temporary drain pipes were 5038 . 8 or 3 . 6 <br /> inches higher. The proposed final design uses the same <br />