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STORMWATER MANAGEMENT PLAN <br /> NEWMONT, <br /> CRIPPLE •- GOLD MINING COMPANY <br /> 1.0 Description of Mining Activities <br /> 1.1 Site Description <br /> Newmont USA Limited's Cripple Creek and Victor Gold Mining Company (CC&V) operates the Cresson <br /> Project (Site) located in the Cripple Creek Mining District (Mining District). The approximate center of the <br /> Site is 1.25 miles north of Victor, Colorado and two miles southeast of Cripple Creek, Colorado in Teller <br /> County, Colorado The Site can be accessed using the following public roads. <br /> • Colorado Highway 67 on the west and south; <br /> • Teller County Road 82 on the north; and <br /> • Teller County Road 81 on the east. <br /> CC&V's administrative offices are located at 100 N. 3rd Street in Victor, Colorado. The nearest communities <br /> to the Site are the towns of Victor, Cripple Creek, and Goldfield, Colorado. Figure 1 shows the general <br /> location of the Site. <br /> The surface topography of the Site ranges in elevation from approximately 9,000 to 10,800 feet above mean <br /> sea level with an average annual precipitation of approximately 19.2 inches The permit area of the mine <br /> site encompasses approximately 6,007 acres, of which approximately 3,135 acres have the potential to be <br /> disturbed as currently permitted. <br /> CC&V currently conducts mining and recovery of gold and silver at the Site. Site activities as of February <br /> 2019 include surface mining, cyanide leaching of ore on a modern double and triple lined zero discharge <br /> Valley Leach Facility (VLF), milling of high grade ore, environmental monitoring, reclamation and <br /> exploration. <br /> 1.2 Surface Water Drainage <br /> The current mining, milling, and ore leaching operations at the Site are conducted within the headwaters of <br /> the Arequa Gulch, Poverty Gulch, Squaw Gulch, and Grassy Creek watersheds (Figure 1). Poverty Gulch, <br /> Theresa Creek, Bateman Creek, and a few un-named"first order"tributaries that drain the southeast sector <br /> of the Site also have the potential to drain stormwater from the property. These drainages are tributary to <br /> Cripple Creek or Wilson Creek, which are in turn tributary to Fourmile Creek and ultimately the Arkansas <br /> River Areas that have undergone reclamation, an active overburden storage area (OSA), and a mine haul <br /> road are located in the uppermost reaches of the Grassy Creek Watershed, a tributary to Beaver Creek in <br /> the upper Arkansas River drainage basin. Named creeks and drainages within and near the Site, including <br />