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EXHIBIT G WATER INFORMATION <br /> 1. General <br /> The site is located on a minor moraine and dominant alluvial outwash gravel terrace <br /> immediately west of Mt. Elbert in the Sawatch Mountain Range. The Arkansas River flows <br /> north to south along the eastern edge of Highway 24 approximately 0.7 miles east of the Box <br /> Placer permit area. Box Creek and Herrington Creek enter the site along the northwestern <br /> extent. Corske Creek flows into the site from the southwestern corner and travels east through <br /> the southern extent of the site. Multiple unnamed ephemeral ditches crisscross the site in each <br /> cardinal direction. Wetland species are found surrounding some of these unnamed ditches and <br /> creeks, see Map C-1 for wetland locations. Although the outwash gravel terrace is primarily dry, <br /> there are a number of existing ponds that are present as a result of pre-law dredge mining. These <br /> pre-law ponds are shown on Map C-1. <br /> As discussed in Exhibit C—Mine Plan and Exhibit E—Reclamation, pre-law ponds and <br /> topographic lows will be first utilized as sediment settling ponds where sluice operations will <br /> pump and recirculate water. Water for the entire operation will be pulled from the underlying <br /> alluvial aquifer as mining begins and is maintained. Groundwater will be allowed to infiltrate <br /> the first mining phase pits and will be pumped into the closest adjacent pre-law topographic low <br /> such as trenches, wet ponds, and/or old but dry ponds. Groundwater will be pumped and <br /> recirculated through the sluice. Resultant waste fines, reject cobbles, and water will exit the <br /> sluice to reenter the current sediment settling pond for each mining area. <br /> Water rights will be leased from either the City of Aurora or the City of Pueblo. A Substitute <br /> Water Supply Plan (SWSP) is in preparation to lease from the above mentioned potential <br /> sources and account for alluvial groundwater recycled in gold extraction processing. <br /> The 100 year floodplain of the Arkansas River is well outside the permit area. Since the mining <br /> operations and all associated activity will operate out of the Arkansas River floodplain area and <br /> will not discharge into it, it is not expected that the activity presented in this application will <br /> increase any sediment,trace elements, dissolved solids or other water quality parameter in any <br /> way for the Arkansas River or its contributing tributaries. Most runoff on the active site will <br /> either be captured by berms, stormwater ponds, or will infiltrate into the porous gravel filled <br /> Box Creek Placer Mine Greg lx icki and Ammiatm PLL( <br /> September 2018 G-1 <br />