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B (Photogaph No. 12). The DTD in this area has a lot of vegetation Bowing in the ditch (Photogaph No. 13) and would restrict flows that may pass this last turnout. The discharge pipe from Pond B is much as it was in April and on October 5, 2004 (Photogaph No. 14). The DTD below this discharge pipe (Photogaph No. 15), and downstream of this point (Photogaph Nos. 16, 17, & 18), as well as the inlet area of the 18" pipe crossing of the FMC for the end of the DTD (Photogaph No. 19), have significant amounts of willows and other vegetation Bowing in the ditch. Upstream of the 18" pipe crossing is also where the emergency spillway for Pond B would enter the DTD and then the FMC. The capacity of this 18" pipe crossing seems to be considerably larger than that needed for the DTD, which the state lists as 3 '/: cfs, which is presumably near the diversion on Hubbard Creek. Pond. B was briefly looked at (Photogaph Nos. 20, 21, 22 & 23) with little change noted from the April 2004 site visit, with the possible exception that there is additional sediment at the western end of the pond. 4. Coaclusions: We again informed the Bowie Resources representatives, William (Bill) Bear, Jr., Mine Manager, Bowie Resources, Ltd (Bowie Resources), and Jim Stover, PE, of J.E. Stover & Associates, that we do not allow storm water discharges, especially from areas like mines, into our canals, namely the FMC. These dischazges of pollutants into the FMC may result in operational and maintenance problems as well as water quality issues. This was also discussed with Bill Beaz in April and on October 5, 2004. It's also fairly obvious that flows from the other ponds on this site, specifically Ponds B, C and D could also easily flow into the FMC due to the limited capacity of the DTD, Information provided by the DMG on Pond D shows that the capacity of the discharge pipe for that one pond cool d be Beater thari the capacity of the DTD. There are observation wells that were installed at various locations; one in particular was installed just downhill of Pond F. When the quarterly readings aze taken, there apparently is no mention of the level of the water in the pond included. It would seem that, without the }eve] of the water in the pond being noted, readings from the observation wells would be of limited use, since the water levels cannot be correlated to the pond or some other source. Some of these wells are quite a bit deeper than the ponds, so depending on how the wells were constructed and what materials were intersected and at what depth, the water levels being measured may be influenced by more than one source. Several possible steps could be taken to keep settlement pond discharges from entering the FMC. The DTD needs a lot of maintenance to clean the ditch of vegetation to improve flows and to improve and increase the capacity of the ditch. This would help keep the controlled dischazges from the discharge pipes contained in the DTD, as long as only one or two are discharged at the same time so that the capacity of the DTD is not exceeded, depending on the capacity of the discharge pipes. Since the inlets of the discharge pipes are at the top of the sediment levels, sediment transported through the discharge pipes to the DTD would have to be periodically removed also. Flows from the emergency spillways should be either routed to existing drainages that go under the FMC, such as the 4' culvert under the FMC below Pond F, or should be routed to cross drainage flumes over the FMC info existing drainages downhill of the FMC. Since some of these drainages were originally captured by the FMC, these changes in flows downhill would need to be evaluated for potential impacts etc. The flumes over the FMC should be sized to pass flood flows for any of the ponds that aze routed to it and would need to be reviewed and licensed by