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In early 1986, they consumed 8,700 gpd. Water consumption decreased when the mining <br /> operations were temporarily halted. Now that mining and loadout operations have ceased,there is <br /> no water consumption from the well field. The water supply was drawn from a well field which <br /> taps the alluvium of Stevens Gulch. The applicant has obtained an approved augmentation plan <br /> through Division 4 Water Court to replace water removed from Stevens Gulch. The plan uses <br /> releases from East Beckwith No. 1 Reservoir, located in the Anthracite drainage, to compensate <br /> for any injury to other vested water rights or,for this purpose,the North Fork alluvium. The Bowie <br /> No. I Mine,through an agreement with Pitkin Mesa Pipeline Company, obtained additional water <br /> for mine consumption. This water was also drawn from the Stevens Gulch alluvium, but under <br /> the pipeline company's water right. <br /> BRL proposes to replace the water supply of any legitimate water user if impacted by the mine <br /> until such time as repairs are instituted. The application includes specific sources of water owned <br /> by BRL that will be called upon. A subsidence repair plan for springs, ponds, streams, and other <br /> resources is included in Subsidence Volume 3. <br /> Topsoil - Rules 2.04.9, 2.05.3(5), 2.05.4(2)(d), 4.06 <br /> Information pertaining to soil resources and their inventory is presented in the PAP, Section 2.04 <br /> of Volume I and in the Soils Appendix of Volume 9. Information pertaining to topsoil handling <br /> and redistribution is in Section 2.05 of Volume 1. <br /> Disturbance at the Bowie No. 1 Mine commenced in late 1975 but has presently ceased due to the <br /> cessation of mining. The initial development work of the Bowie No. 1 East Mine benches and the <br /> storage and loadout areas occurred from October 1975 to mid-1976, prior to the enactment of the <br /> Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Act of 1976 and its topsoil salvaging requirements. Due to <br /> the steep slopes in these areas, no topsoil was salvaged. Since enactment of the 1976 law, topsoil <br /> has been salvaged from disturbed areas. <br /> Topsoil layers at the existing facilities are shallow,ranging from about two inches to eight inches; <br /> surface textures are generally loams or clay loams with subsoils ranging from clay loams to clays. <br /> However, at the Roatcap Creek (West Mine) facilities soils are much deeper, ranging from two <br /> feet to four feet in many places. Basaltic cobbles and stones are common throughout the profile <br /> of most soils. The general area is somewhat susceptible to landslides, especially in the steeper <br /> topography of the East Mine bench area and, as such, the continual sloughing of colluvial material <br /> in this area impairs horizon development. <br /> Vegetation - Rules 2.04.10, 2.05.4(2)(e), 4.15 <br /> Information pertaining to vegetation baseline studies is presented in the PAP, Section 2.04 of <br /> Volume I and in the Vegetation Appendix of Volume 9A. Information pertaining to the <br /> revegetation plan and vegetation success criteria is in Section 2.05 of Volume I and in the <br /> Vegetation Appendix of Volume 9A. <br /> 12 <br />