INSPEC42581

• Permit No: M1988112
• IBM Index Class Name: Inspection
• Doc Date: 4/10/1995
• Doc Name: SAN LUIS BATTLE MOUNTAIN OPERATIONS
• From: WESTERN MINING ACTION PROJECT
• To: DMG
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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PAGE f2 -ARKANSAS VALLEY JOURNAL ~• MARCH f6, 1945
Costilla erosi
b~ Je!! Ctern
SAN JUAN - Watsr users and
planners here are looking Eor
ways to check eraaton b the Rico
Seco watershed that has seated
on threat ets
gulltc more that[ 20 deep
end choked frrlgatbn ditches
with all
Close to 2,000 acres of
fantU>asd m Costilla County an
watered by flaws from Rite Seeo.
CLIME IifREf~Rl?S
An excellent group of yearling
and two-year-old bulls.
~g(LP EPD'S - Birth +4.4 • Weanhg Weight +38.
• Yearfifg Weight +62 Milk +8 vlik ~ Growtn +27
51red by:
PR PRfNELINE -lop grpvth bull in the breed
GB LI DOAlINO 604 -low birth weightand balanced [rats
IOECLINE Sl'ANCLINE
Star koute, Wiley, CO Rohe 1, McClave, CO
{779) 829.4a15 ;719) X29.4425

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dry creek: the stream Uowa
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Ht~t1y erodfbk soils and lack of j ;
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watershed have confrfbvted to a
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said. Therc's been tnore and '
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[Wore Impact since Sallie
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mtntng, he satd. stator events .
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would flush Wlt inb Rlto 5eeo PYie1e r.s sww
tut the water would clear up UtRRYtICAWANABE,CouigaCountydislricteonservaliorwst,stwwsa ~
after n few days. Now, the stream 2lNoot deep eroded artoyo. d
>a tutMd o1S the Ume. t
'Ittae has been an Increase 1n teehnictan with lire NaLUret and then mrne ~on to aaother ~
the source of sediments since Resources Coruervatian Service atea~' c
the mine opened,' agreed Pete tNRCS) In fa Data, Jae Gallegos said call erosion at r
Gallegos, a so11 conservalloa Re said platy were laid to ibis locatlaat was made much u
check erosbn b the RJto taeoo worse whin the road to the told
• watershed b the hie 197t1s irrif- mloe, which Is located several
Your ware rldetmcked whin flood mdea upstream, was sMdened.
Bf7KIdG pleventlon dowrutreim m Sus •The conservancy district Is
LuL became the focal point of wn111tIX to do anything b help
Eieltsd eatglneerhtg work here- make sure we love clean water
ltlGltwa At one point along the road to In the stream and Irrlgatton
the gold mine, governmea/ ditches,' he said. 'hut the mine
' of8clals peered Into a deep gu0y has to take responsibtifty at a
caused by erosion of an cerfaln po1nL'
ETCHHBCtL!iSS lntermltient tributary to Rtta bawanabe said he's
Seto. The Roor of the gutty, some approached the Division o!
BRAI'1D5, [HORSES, t~E7S, 90 feet below the level of Wildlife b help fund the erosion
ror!•a. rmw.. arl.ert, p.nn+• svirttvndtttg land. tS Ltteted with control study slntt [bete used
sat wor• •~eM6 w w.•r +ro•• •s washed out culverts Wad other le be Qsh In R1to Seto. and other
pnwuw+ua debris, potential sources es well. Ba[tk
Pusonslirsd, unique gifts! '1'm trying W scans up some atountaln Goid has olSeted to
~L~, ~ ~~ money b do a study to control
' contribute machinery and
• erosion fn this am,
said Larry manpower b the effort, he s
Qh1Ws fiinp•r 1[awanabe, MRCS dlstrlc Reclaimed one piles at Ilte mine
(7 1 ! ~ 9 <~ • 3 S t S oonaetsriltontst in San Luis. •We arc atrcady beglnnNg w erode.
rrr5 ca r, H•.•rC. e0 rrt7r Can tackle one pcoblem a[ a time he said.
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