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improving the salinity in East Salt Creek surface waters and the alluvium <br />groundwater, downstream farmers will not suffer loss of production due to <br />the addition of mine discharge. <br />Recently, a local rancher developed a well in the alluvium of East Salt <br />Creek. The water from the well was so poor that it could not be used for <br />any beneficial purpose. There are about five domestic water users in the <br />area. Each must truck water over 20 miles to the area for domestic use. <br />This preponderance of evidence that the groundwater is unusable would <br />indicate that even if the groundwater from the mine did mix with the <br />groundwater of the East Salt Creek alluvium, no detrimental effect would <br />occur. East Salt Creek is an accurate name. <br />Subirrigation is not likely to occur in the area south of the mine office as <br />the water table is too deep, on average 26 feet below the surface, and the <br />soils, typically a loam type, have a permeability that is too high to hold <br />enough water to successfully irrigate. It is not realistic to believe enough <br />water could be added from the surface to raise the level of the <br />groundwater to within the reach of the surface. Irrigation in the areas <br />south of the mine, and most agricultural areas in the Grand Valley, consist <br />of gravity flow irrigation practices. <br />PR -02 2.06-6 10/12 <br />