APPCOR10985

• Permit No: C1981034
• IBM Index Class Name: Application Correspondence
• Doc Date: 4/3/1980
• Doc Name: MEMO GRAND MESA COAL RED CANYON #1 MINE DELTA COUNTY APPLICATION FOR MINING AND RECLAMATION PERMIT
• From: DWR
• To: MLRD
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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RICHARD D. LAMM
Governor

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J. A. DANIELSON
State Engineer
DIVISION OF WATER RESOURCES
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman Street -Room 818
Denver, Colorado 80203
Administration [phone]
Ground Water [phone]
April 3 , 1980
MEMORANDUM ~ ~'
TO: CHIPS BARRY, DIRECTOR, MINED LAND RECLAMATION DIVISION
FROM: HAL D, SIMPSON, CHIEF, WATER MANAGEMENT BRANCH
SUBJECT: GRAND MESA COAL -RED CANYON #1 MINE -DELTA COUNTY,
APPLICATION FOR MINING AND RECLAMATION PERMIT
This letter represents only a partial response by our office to your request
that we review the above application for an underground coal mine located
near Cedaredge. Additional comments concerning ground water monitoring
will be provided later. In Exhibit G the applicant states that he has filed
for a well permit to use water generated in the mine. They filed for the
permit in October of 1979, however, the Ground Water Section of our office
denied their application on the basis that the mine is located in an over-
appropriated basin and any use of tributary ground water without a plan for
augmentation would injure existing water rights in the Fork Tongue Creek basin.
The applicant also mentions on page G-4 of the report that a system may be
developed to use runoff irrigation water from the property north of the mine to
back up the underground water. In order to use the runoff irrigation water,
the applicant would have to obtain water rights for the water and since the
basin is over-appropriated, the applicant would have to provide augmentation
water for the consumptive uses associated with the mine uses of the water.
It would appear from the information provided that the proposed sediment dam
will not exceed 10 feet in height from the original streambed to the bottom of
the spillway and, therefore, the plans and specifications will not have to be
submitted to this offioe for approval.
Until the applicant can obtain water rights In the Fork Tongue Creek basin to
provide for a plan for augmentation, the applicant will not be able to obtain