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