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11 <br /> <br />Outfall 029 was added to the permit to allow for pumping, treatment and discharge of B- <br />seam water from the mine workings to the surface. The facilities associated with this <br />system were constructed and commissioned in May of 2012. <br /> <br />The NPDES permit was renewed effective October 1, 2007. A renewal application was <br />timely submitted in March of 2012. The CDPHE has not renewed this permit to date and <br />we continue to operate per the amended permit received when Outfall 029 was added. <br /> <br />Two additional outfalls were applied for in May. The first is to cover discharges from a <br />new B-Seam pumping system as an alternate to outfall 029. The second is to address <br />the WET testing failures of outfall 026 by discharging directly to the White River. We were <br />informed that the CDPHE would have to process our permit renewal before adding the <br />new outfalls. We requested reprioritization of our renewal twice with no apparent actions. <br /> <br />2.2.1.7 Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) Testing WET testing for the D-Seam discharge, <br />Outfall 026, showed excessive toxicity to Daphnia magna and Fathead minnows. We are <br />currently following NPDES Permit protocol and CDPH&E guidance to address this issue <br />for the long term. No discharges occurred through outfall 026 during this water year but <br />will have to resume discharges as the water level in the D-Seam rises. <br /> <br />WET testing of discharges from water pumped from the B-Seam (outfall 029) showed no <br />signs of toxicity. <br /> <br /> <br />2.3 Red Wash Alluvial Monitoring Program <br /> <br />Portions of Red Wash experienced subsidence due to longwall mining at the Deserado <br />Mine. As required by CMLRD (now DRMS), BME initiated a detailed hydrology monitoring <br />program in Red Wash above the first longwall panel to be mined. The monitoring program <br />consisted of nine (9) holes drilled in the Red Wash alluvium across the predicted zone of <br />subsidence from longwall panel 1 (LW-1). Water levels in the holes were monitored before, <br />during, and after subsidence took place. The purpose of the monitoring program was to <br />determine if surface flow in Red Wash was lost to bedrock as the result of subsidence. <br /> <br />The monitoring data, analysis and conclusions were submitted to CMLRD in an Interim <br />Report, November 1987, and in the Third Annual Hydrology Report, January 1988. The <br />monitoring program determined that surface flow in Red Wash was not lost to bedrock as a <br />result of subsidence. The major conclusions of the study were: <br /> <br /> • Recharge of the basal alluvium was from the upper sandstone facies (bedrock) <br />and not from infiltration of surface runoff.