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A previous site visit was conducted on April 21, 2004 to look at problems of <br />discharges from another pond (Pond B) into the FMC and is documented in a <br />travel report dated April 27, 2004. <br />Fire Mountain Canal and Reservoir Company operates and maintains the FMC <br />and the North Fork Water Conservancy District has a repayment contract with <br />the Bureau of Reclamation that covers the work on the FMC as well as Paonia <br />Dam. <br />4. Synopsis of trip: Alan Schroeder and Bob Major traveled to the Bowie, <br />Colorado area arriving at around 10:00 am. We met with Merritt Denison and <br />Paul Schmucker with Fire Mountain Canal and Reservoir Company and with <br />William (Bill) Bear Jr. and Jim Stover representing Bowie Resources which owns <br />and constructed the ponds. We all looked at the settling pond (designated Pond <br />F) by parking along and walking up from the "old" highway 133. We looked at <br />Pond F from various locations (Photos #1 & 2). This pond is located below a <br />large spoil pile that was being added to while we were onsite. There is no <br />controlled discharge pipe with a valve from this pond. At this time there is an <br />emergency overtlow (Photos #1 & 3) where some of the water going into the <br />Deer Trail Ditch (DTD) through a 6' long hole cut into the 2' cmp (Photo #3) for <br />the DTD and the rest going into the FMC. A web site for the State <br />(http://www.dnr.state.co.us/water/indexWater.asp) lists the DTD having a <br />maximum capacity of about 3.5 efs, which is probably closer to the diversion <br />point from Hubbard Creek. On this day, this cmp was running about''/2 full. The <br />only other way to drain the pond would be to have a pump brought in and pump <br />the water out. Bowie Resources representatives had indicated that water <br />pumped from Pond F may be discharged into a drainage west of the pond <br />(discussed below} even though according to the discharge permit, Pond F is <br />supposed to discharge into the DTD, which for this pond is listed as discharge <br />point no. 005. <br />We also looked at drainage channels already in place (Photo #4) and being <br />worked on (Photos #7 & 8) that also divert water to Pond F. Runoff from the haul <br />roads (Photo #8) as well as surface runoff from the pile and maybe other sources <br />are also diverted into Pond F. A toe drain system was installed under the pile <br />(Photos #5 and 6) to collect seepage through the pile and maybe under the pile <br />from uphill that also drains into Pond F. Information received on the discharge <br />permit for this pond should only collect surface runoff. <br />