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Natural Soda LLC 2024 Project Status Report & Annual Plan of Development
<br /> 23 January 2025
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<br />4.5. Water Supply Well Pumpage
<br />In 2024, approximately 86.12 million gallons of water were pumped from water supply
<br />wells WSW-2, WSW-3, and WSW-4 with an average pumpage of 163.3 gallons per
<br />minute (gpm). Included in the following Table 6 is a summary of water supply pumpage
<br />in 2024. The 2024 total pumpage increased by 3.53 million gallons from the 2023
<br />pumpage total of 82.59 million gallons. The additional water pumped in 2024 can be
<br />attributed in part to supplying water for drilling operations on the three 18H mining interval
<br />production wells. The 2024 total pumpage from WSW-2 was 2.55 million gallons, WSW-
<br />3 was 41.36 million gallons, and the total pumpage from WSW-4 was 42.19 million
<br />gallons.
<br />NS continued to release water from the WSW-3 and WSW-4 in 2024 to meet obligations
<br />for White River water rights call. The 2022 WY Augmentation Plan (88CW420) required
<br />NS to release 241,800 gallons (0.74-acre feet) of water per month during the months the
<br />water call was in place. For 2023 WY the amount of water required to be released was
<br />increased to 256,445 gallons (0.79-acre feet) of water per month. For the calendar year
<br />2024 there was partial water augmentation for the month of January, the water call was
<br />lifted on January 9, 2024, at 8:00 AM. NS released 119,600 gallons of water in January
<br />2024 for a total of 1,602,900 gallons since the water rights call began in December 2022.
<br />Table 6: NS Water Supply Well Pumpage 2024
<br />2024
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<br />Date
<br />WSW-2
<br />(#074491-F)
<br />WSW-3
<br />(#077834-F)
<br />WSW-4
<br />(#077833-F) Total Avg. Water
<br />Augmentation
<br />(gal) (gal) (gal) (gal) (gpm) (gal)
<br />Jan 3,300 3,438,700 3,464,900 6,906,900 154.7 119,600
<br />Feb 13,400 2,881,000 3,257,200 6,151,600 147.3 0
<br />Mar 13,300 3,217,200 3,667,100 6,897,600 154.5 0
<br />Apr 28,300 3,513,700 3,698,600 7,240,600 167.6 0
<br />May 335,100 3,292,400 3,379,700 7,007,200 157.0 0
<br />Jun 131,600 3,327,300 3,443,300 6,902,200 159.8 0
<br />Jul 5,300 3,650,000 3,650,600 7,305,900 163.7 0
<br />Aug 2,000 3,690,600 3,685,800 7,378,400 165.3 0
<br />Sep 2,200 3,434,500 3,331,900 6,768,600 156.7 0
<br />Oct 951,900 4,220,900 4,025,900 9,198,700 206.1 0
<br />Nov 6,500 3,605,032 3,489,774 7,101,306 164.4 0
<br />Dec 1,064,200 3,096,368 3,102,026 7,262,594 162.7 0
<br />Total: 2,557,100 41,367,700 42,196,800 86,121,600 163.3 119,600
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