2018-09-14_REVISION - C1981041 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

JAMES A. BECKWITH FONTANARI OBJECTIONS AND COMMENTS / SNOWCAP BOND APPLICATION SL -I I / PG. 7 In October, 2016, the Eldridge Survey Plats, and the photographs of the depressions and sinkholes were filed with DRMS in Application TR -69, as part of Fontanari's Response to Repair Plan and Objections to Proposed Decision. On August 14, 2018, the DRMS inspection team orally acknowledged to the Fontanari team members present, including the undersigned, that they had received and reviewed these materials in advance of the 2018 inspections. 2. Observed surface subsidence features. DRMS' bond release inspection was conducted August 14-16, 2018. During that inspection, Mr. Wein, of DRMS, duly logged GPS coordinates and photographed all conditions noted hereafter for the expressed purpose of creating a plat of the Study Area. Mr. Wein's equipment, however, was not programmed to record elevation, thereby preventing accurate documentation of surface depressions. To date, DRMS has not provided a copy of Mr. Wein's plat to Fontanari. On August 24, 2018, a Fontanari team again visited the inspection sites. As a result of these inspections, the following subsidence features are known to exist: (The locations of these Events are set forth in Fontanari Exhibit 10. Subsidence Depression A / Tract No. 71 West This subsidence depression straddles the western boundary of Tract No. 71 with the eastern boundary of the Carey Tract. The subsidence is situated at the northern end of Carey Pond, which generally "leaks like a sieve," allowing water to drain into the soil. Indeed, in 1992, 1993 and 1994, Powderhorn filed Annual Hydrology Reports with DRMS quantifying "spiked" inflows of waters arising from surface irrigation involving water placed in the Carey Pond. Fontanari Exhibit 11 (containing copies of (1992 AHR, Pgs. 6, Table M92-5; 1993 AHR, Pg. 6, Table M93-1; 1994 AHR Pg. 5 Table M94-1) The depression is quite observable. Its western rim contains several sinkholes. This depression lies to the west of the location where, under TR -69, Snowcap has been authorized to install concrete plugs to purportedly prevent hydrologic communication between surface water and the abandoned air ventilation shaft shown in the 1980 GEX map. This depression was photographed and documented in the 2016 Eldridge Survey Plat together with the noted sinkholes. It was also documented, with GPS coordinates and elevations, in the 2016 Updated Eldridge Survey Plat. Both the original and updated survey plats (together with photographs of the staked and located sinkholes) were filed with DRMS in October 2016, as part of the Fontanari Objection to Snowcap Repair Plan (TR -69). (Fontanari Exhibit 12)