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4. WATER ISSUES <br /> 4.1 Water Wells <br /> Properties along Little Turkey Creek Road rely on private residential wells. As shown in Exhibit <br /> G of the Application, the Transit Mix application identified and located a number of wells within <br /> a short distance of the proposed quarry operations area. Figure 17 is extracted from Exhibit G <br /> (FIGURE 2 Transit Mix Hitch Rack Ranch Surface Water Feature Location Map). <br /> XIMI,A � <br /> f wssY <br /> 2t"u <br /> 12292 J <br /> 27�,Sa f /^Hg2f •` JJ` 214409 YY336 k <br /> SVCS <br /> lot <br /> 2Qb 619 �; <br /> tt 545t «1 � � 21M11 <br /> W"12 1 / ---. �20T8 Sf <br /> 1 `W44 <br /> Cwt <br /> , <br /> � etn . <br /> ow <br /> 1 1 <br /> ttA `ll <br /> �J <br /> 12tx <br /> Figure 17 Nearby Water Wells <br /> At least one of the wells within Eagles Nest was omitted from the application information. It <br /> happens to be one of the wells closest to the northwest quarry operations boundary. This raised <br /> the question of how many additional affected wells were not included in the research and <br /> analysis. <br /> Those wells in Eagles Nest located to the northwest of the quarry operations area obtain water <br /> from rock fractures(those highlighted in yellow). Any earth movement caused by blasting may <br /> disrupt those rock fractures,which may impact the quantity of water available to these wells or <br /> damage submersible pumping equipment within the wells. Quarry operations may also <br /> inadvertently drain water from these rock fractures, impacting the availability of water to the <br /> residential wells above the quarry. The plan recommends the drilling of a test well on the west <br /> side of section 16 to monitor if wells above the quarry have been affected by quarry operations. <br /> However, if that test well does not happen to hit the same rock fracture as the affected wells, it <br /> would be inconclusive whether the operations at the quarry did, indeed, affect wells. <br /> If a landowner's well ceases to yield water,there may be costs associated with trucking water to <br /> their property and drilling a new well. If the burden of proof were to fall on the landowners that <br />