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DRMS Permit Index
Permit No
C1981022
IBM Index Class Name
General Documents
Doc Date
12/31/2019
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For RN7
Doc Name
Proposed Decision and Findings of Compliance
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Oxbow Mining, LLC
Permit Index Doc Type
Findings
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LDS
JDM
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Colorado. <br /> Description of the Environment <br /> The surface permitted area consists of 15,676.51 acres: 10,125.51 acres are federally owned <br /> (USFS and BLM) and 5,551 acres are privately-owned lands. The coal reserve owners include <br /> OMLLC, other private entities and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM). <br /> Surface facilities are located in the Elk Creek, Bear Creek, Hubbard Creek and Sanborn Creek <br /> drainages on the north side of the North Fork of the Gunnison River. Mining areas include <br /> workings that lie under the Hubbard Creek, Elk Creek, Bear Creek and Coal Gulch drainages. <br /> Workings in the Sanborn Creek East Tract have undermined A, B, C and Hoopla Gulches, <br /> Bardine Canyon, Hawk's Nest Creek and an unnamed tributary of Thompson Creek. Hubbard <br /> Creek is a perennial tributary of the North Fork of the Gunnison River and provides both <br /> domestic and agricultural supplies of water. Bear Creek, Elk Creek and Sanborn Creek are <br /> intermittent streams. Coal Gulch, the unnamed drainage, A, B and C Gulches, Hawk's Nest <br /> Creek, Hoopla Gulch, Bardine Canyon and Thompson Creek are all ephemeral drainages that <br /> flow to the North Fork of the Gunnison River. <br /> The North Fork River Basin contains a developed water supply providing agricultural water to <br /> the fruit growing region of the North Fork Valley. The North Fork River enters the main stem of <br /> the Gunnison River approximately 25 miles southwest of the Elk Creek Mine. The drainage <br /> basin of the North Fork is mountainous, bounded to the east by the Raggeds and Huntsman <br /> Ridge, to the South by the West Elk Mountains, and to the North by the Grand Mesa. Elevations <br /> in the basin range from 13,058 feet at Mt. Owen in the Ruby Range, to 5,100 feet at the <br /> confluence of the North Fork of the Gunnison and Gunnison Rivers. The town of Somerset, <br /> Colorado, immediately adjacent to the Elk Creek Mine, is at an elevation of 6,045 feet. <br /> Ground reconnaissance during 1978, 1979 and 1980 identified the Elk No. 1 Spring as the only <br /> location with ground water surfacing within the original permit area, and this Spring had a flow <br /> rate of less than one gallon per minute. It is concluded that there is no large ground water <br /> reservoir in the area. <br /> Western Slope Carbon identified and monitored I I springs within or adjacent to the Sanborn <br /> East Tract. Monitoring records are available from 1983 through 1987. Somerset Mining <br /> Company, now Oxbow Mining, LLC, resumed monitoring these springs in July 1992. Springs I <br /> through 6 are located along the north boundary of the Sanborn East Tract in the northern portion <br /> of Section 2. Springs 7 through I I are located along the southern boundary of the new tract. <br /> The locations of the springs are shown on Map 2. 04 -M5 of the PAP. <br /> With Permit Revision No. 5 (PR-05), OMLLC undertook a new survey of surface water <br /> resources in the Elk Creek Mine tract. While there are no adjudicated water resources in that <br /> tract, the USFS and BLM requested that OMLLC inventory the resources. Resources identified <br /> were added to Map 2.04-M5 of the PAP. <br /> The topography of the region is characterized by steep canyons cut by the North Fork of the <br /> 5 <br />
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