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Bowie Resources, LLC <br />Bowie No. 2 Mine <br />2016 Annual Hydrology Report <br />provided in the permit application. The mine construction work during 1997 required the <br />elimination of four monitored drill holes. These holes are DH 42, DH 52, DH 54 and DH <br />55 and were located near the mine portals. Drill Holes DH -13 and DH -34b were <br />eliminated by mining. Drill hole DH -34c was damaged by ground movement. DH -16 is <br />blocked at 60 -feet so no monitoring can be performed. Drill Holes DH -57, 57a and <br />DH -58, 58a were added in conjunction with the Terror Creek Coal Exploration Plan, with <br />monitoring beginning in the fall of 1999. Drill holes DH -57 and DH57a were destroyed <br />by longwall mining during 2001. DH -58 and 58a were eliminated by mining during late <br />2003 so they are no longer monitored. <br />D -Seam monitoring wells DH -15, DH -25 and DH -38 can no longer be monitored since <br />all three have damaged well casings. During 2016, DH -15 was sealed and replaced by <br />new D -Seam monitoring well DH -15A. The new well is located near the old monitoring <br />well. Monitoring of DH -15A began the fourth quarter of 2016. <br />Drill holes DH -65, DH -66, DH -67D, DH-67b1w and DH-67abv were added in conjunction <br />with the Iron Point Federal coal lease, with some monitoring beginning during the fall of <br />2000. DH -67D was damaged during 2003 so no monitoring was performed. The DH - <br />67 holes were refurbished during 2004. DH -66 was eliminated by mining during early <br />2004 so it is no longer monitored. DH-67b1w had a pinched casing so a new DH-67b1w <br />was drilled during 2014. <br />Drill holes DD-NM4X98-27, 28 and 29 were in -mine monitoring holes which were added <br />to the monitoring program during 2003. The three monitoring points were abandoned <br />when the mine activity retreated from the east mains in mid 2004. TC -03-01, 02 and 03 <br />were added to the monitoring program during 2003. TC -03-03 was sealed in 2010 <br />because a ventilation shaft was constructed where TC -03-03 was located. Monitoring <br />wells TC -03-01 and TC -03-02 could not be rehabilitated during 2014. The wells could <br />be used as water level piezometers but the wells are not functional for water quality <br />data. Monitoring results for these well is of questionable value. <br />Drill holes CWI-DH-58 and CWI-DH-60 were added to the monitoring program in 2011 <br />with the approval of permit revision 12 to cover the area west of Terror Creek. <br />Monitoring well CWI-DH-60 was cleaned and rehabilitated between August 20 and <br />August 23, 2014. On August 22, 2014, the well was evacuated using the airlift and <br />bailing techniques and the water quality showed a pH of 7.70 s.u., conductivity of 863 <br />pS/cm, and temperature of 20.5° C. After a 12 hour recovery period, the SWL was <br />measured at 892.0 feet btoc (August 23, 2014). <br />A new well CWI-DH-58a was drilled to replace CWI-DH-58 late in 2014. The Applicant <br />n <br />