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4 <br />^_ <br />J <br />~ i <br />Mr. Jack Purdy -2- September 21 , 1992 <br />B. Pennsylvania West Coal must provide documentation of the surface and <br />groundwater regimes prior to submittal of a permit application to this office. The <br />Division cannot approve a permit with stipulations that request the acquisition of <br />baseline information. Many of the findings required for permit approval are based <br />on the evaluation of this pre-determined hydrologic information. <br />The standard permit application period runs 6 months; however, the Division may <br />call an application complete with as little as 3 calendar quarters' worth of <br />hydrologic information, to allow for the receipt of a year's worth of information <br />prior to permit issuance. Precipitation data in the permit (page 1011 suggests that <br />the site receives more precipitation in the fall than other times of year, so the <br />possibility exists to acquire this information in a very short time frame. <br />Mr. Jim Bennett of the Durango office of the U.S.G.S. has indicated that a <br />substantial storm occurred on August 24, 1992; was anyone representing <br />Pennsylvania West able to acquire any information from this event? Acceptable <br />documentation citing dry streambeds would consist of a table recording <br />precipitation or snowmelt events and the associated flow or non-flow of waters, as <br />the case may be. <br />C. Mr. Carson's response to this question is confusing. The monitoring plan found on <br />pages 258-260 of the permit application calls for monitoring of only one well, the <br />Messier Well, starting in year 2 of mining (assuming the Mine Plan is followed). it <br />appears that some alluvial monitoring is proposed, but the nomenclature of the <br />surface water drainages is unclear. The Division requests the installation of three <br />alluvial wells; one south of the Peerless Mine at the intersection of Cherry Gulch <br />and the stream along Route 160, one below the facilities area on Coal Gulch, and <br />the third along Coal Gulch between the permit boundary and Lightner Creek. A <br />"Mangrum" well, completed in alluvium, could potentially serve as the better well. <br />D. The staff stands corrected on the source formation for the Fiederspiel-Yaeger well, <br />but supports the previous contention about the source of the Messier Well. Afield <br />check of the elevation of the top of the casing of the Messier Well, as well as its <br />depth, is probably in order. <br />Fiederspiel- <br />Yaeger <br />Messier <br />Well Elevation <br />TOC BOC <br />7655 7342 <br />Too of Coal <br />Depth Elev. Formation <br />(Exhibit 61 <br />313 7160' Clitf House <br />7350 7040 360 7010' Pt. Lookout <br />7400 <br />