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Huddleston -Berry <br />Engineering S Testing, LLC <br />Snowcap Coal Company <br />2352 N. 7t' Street, Unit B <br />Grand Junction, Colorado 81501 <br />Attention: Ms. Tonya Hammond <br />Subject: Geophysical Investigation <br />Roadside Mine <br />Cameo, Colorado <br />640 White Avenue, Unit B <br />Grand Junction, Colorado 81501 <br />Phone: 970-255-8005 <br />Fax: 970-255-6818 <br />Info ohuddlestonberr .com <br />May 9, 2016 <br />Project#00489-0004 <br />Reference: Project No. 04.79160011 Geophysical Surveys to Idents Potential Groundwater <br />Pathways at a Site Overlying the Snowcap Coal Mine, Palisade, Colorado by <br />Fugro Consultants, Inc. for Huddleston -Berry Engineering & Testing, LLC, April <br />28, 2016. <br />Letter regarding South Portal, Roadside Mine, Cameo, Colorado by Huddleston - <br />Berry Engineering & Testing, LLC for Snowcap Coal Company, June 19, 2014. <br />Dear Ms. Hammond, <br />At your request, Huddleston -Berry Engineering & Testing, LLC (HBET) prepared this letter <br />regarding the Roadside Mine near Cameo, Colorado. In the referenced 2014 letter, HBET <br />discusses significant seepage from the mine portal associated with excess irrigation above the <br />mine. However, subsequent to the referenced letter, HBET has been involved in determining the <br />source of the water and a geophysical investigation was conducted at the site for this purpose. <br />Background <br />As indicated above, HBET evaluated the risks associated with excess seepage from the South <br />Portal of the Roadside Mine in June 2014. After completion of the referenced letter report, <br />HBET was contracted by Snowcap Coal Company to evaluate the source of the water. HBET <br />was informed by Snowcap that the seepage occurred after Mr. Rudolph Fontanari released <br />irrigation water into a ditch on his property above a portion of the mine approximately 0.25 miles <br />southwest of the portal. HBET was also informed that the increase in seepage from the South <br />Portal occurred a very short time after the water was released in the ditch. This suggested a <br />fairly open pathway between the ground surface and mine workings. <br />TR -69 A14-14-1 09/16 <br />