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4-13 <br />immediately above or below the seam have been observed in the <br />area of East Salt Creek. Permeable beds (Sandstones and coal <br />seams) below stream level should be saturated. Thus, the Cameo <br />coal seam is inferred to be saturated in the northeastern part <br />of the tract where it dips below the level of East Salt Creek <br />as proven by results of exploration drilling and as shown on <br />Figure 4.4-1 (see also Appendix G). <br />The Book Cliffs Coal Field area is considered a desert; and only <br />a few springs have been located within the coal bearing strata <br />(Erdman, 1934). The only springs have been located at the Old <br />Book Cliff Mine (Section 18, T. 10 S., R. 99 W.) workings in the <br />Cameo Coal Seam. One of these springs had a flow of about 1.5 <br />gallons of alkaline water per minute and was known as the largest <br />• spring of usable water on the Book Cliffs (Erdman, 1934). Several <br />hundred feet higher than the first spring, at the base of the <br />Cameo Coal zone, another small spring was located. Small springs <br />or seeps of alkaline water were located from the outcrop of the <br />Cameo Coal zone in Section 27, T. 8 S., R. 101 W., and near the <br />creek in Section 22 of the same Township and Range. A series of <br />springs occur along the toe of Rollins sandstone slope in T. 1 N., <br />R. 1 E. A group of springs near Atchee was used in the past by <br />the Uintah Railway. <br />From the study of published materials (Erdman, 1934) and U.S. <br />Bureau of Mines files for the Book Cliffs Coal Field, it is ob- <br />vious that in only one mine has the ground water caused a problem <br />for mining. Flooding by ground water has caused the abandonment <br />of the Anchor No. 1 mine in Section 24, T. 8 S., R. 101 W. In the <br />