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Mined Land Board/Reclamation Mining and Safety <br /> August 30, 2020 <br /> Page 2 <br /> water ditch back to the river. If irrigation water rights are nonexistent there is no prescriptive right <br /> to any drain ditch because there was no water to put in the drain ditch from irrigating the Scott <br /> property. <br /> Response No.6 We may not be adjacent property owners by rule but owners of land discharge <br /> water will cross via a drain ditch from the proposed pit back to the Colorado River should have been <br /> notified no different than discharging to a City storm sewer, or Private irrigation ditch, or <br /> designating a private road as access the pit they don't own.They need permission from the owners. <br /> Response No.12 The drain ditch that crosses our property going to the Colorado River does not <br /> cross Scott pit property. The ditch being addressed as Island Park Ditch that crosses the Scott pit <br /> property is different than the drain ditch crossing our property. The drain ditch built by the US Soil <br /> Conservation Service is on Island Park property and Grant Bros Property. Not the Scott property. <br /> Furthermore Grant Bros property do not discharge into the US Soil Conservation Service or the <br /> Island Park Ditches. WE have a discharge point for emergency use only. (Flooding etc.) 3000 gallons <br /> per minute discharge rate will rise the level in the drain ditch to the point of over flowing when <br /> added to the high flows in the irrigation season. Who is responsible for the flooding damage?Who <br /> pays for the added cost of pumping infiltration water in our gravel pit?These are damages that can <br /> result unless they are addressed now in this process. There is no prescriptive easement for the drain <br /> ditch for a new use dewatering a new gravel pit. <br /> Response No. 15 The Exhibit E Reclamation Plan; Rule 6.4.5 This plan calls for testing of import <br /> material. Yet the response to my comment No. 15 Currently there is no plan to backfill the pit. <br /> Require testing of import. <br /> The response to objections packet now has a wash plant. Is there going to be chemicals used <br /> (flocculants) on site if so who tests so none get in the discharge water? Is the water from the wash <br /> plant mixed with the discharged water and dilution is the solution?Where does the wash out mud <br /> go? How does it stay out of the discharge water? <br /> The new packet has a wash out basin/pond for concrete where does the wash out water go? <br /> The two main issues I have with the response to my comments are: <br />