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• <br />The attached map shows the proposed reclaimed areas and land uses for your property. <br />We want you to know that WFC has attempted to level and flatten your land as much as <br />practical to maximize the amount of gently sloping, and farmable land as possible. These <br />gently sloping fields have been retopsoiled, disced, leveled, rockpicked and smoothed to <br />allow more efficient and productive irrigation after reclamation than that which occurred <br />in the pre -mine condition. The steeper out slopes that face Tuttle Draw have been top <br />soiled. smoothed and furrowed to accommodate a dryland vegetation cover and to <br />control ground erosion. Rock picking was not done on these steeper slopes in the belief <br />that the course rock fragments would assist with erosion control plus help establish shrub <br />vegetation growth. <br />Until the reclamation bond is released, we must follow DRMS strict standards. DRMS <br />will not allow WPC to reclaim land as Irrigated Pasture if there is not sufficient water to <br />be economically managed as Irrigated Pasture permanently. Once WFC gets then <br />• reclamation bond money back and [lie land is returned to the Land Owner, then DRMS <br />is out of the picture and no longer has authority to decide how the land should be <br />managed. At that time, the Land Owner is free to do whatever they want with their land. <br />You could take your 24 shares of water and sell it, do nothing with the land, make a <br />parking lot out of the land or irrigate double/triple the irrigated acreage, your call. <br />Specific Ouestions Asked in the January 17 2010 Letter to DRMMS <br />The calculations of the evapotransunissivity of the alfalfa at New Horizon were <br />done using values from the Californian interior. The area selected in California <br />has a similar climate and elevation as Nucta. The values for Mesa, AZ that you <br />refer to were not used, as that area is not analogous to Nucla. <br />2. Reclamation has either already commenced or been completed on Burbridge, <br />Garvey, and Goforth's properties. The DRMS requirement for the area of <br />Irrigated Pasture to be determined by the water shares available is being added to <br />• <br />