HYDRO21253

• Permit No: C1981033
• IBM Index Class Name: Hydrology
• Doc Date: 8/17/2006
• Doc Name: Hillside Discharge Information & Attachments
• From: DRMS
• To: WQCD
• Permit Index Doc Type: Correspondence
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
August 17, 2006
Mr. Andrew J. Neuhart
Permits Unit
Water Quality Control Division
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
4300 Cherry Creek Dr., S.
Denver, Colorado 80246-1530
RE: Bear No. 3 Mine, Permit No. C-1981-033, Bear Coal Company
Hillside Dischazge Information
Deaz Mr. Neuhart:
COLORADO
DIVISION OF
RECLAMATION
MINING
- &-
SAFETY
Bill Owens
Governor
Russell George
Executive Director
Ronald W. Cattany
Division Director
Natural Resource Trustee
As background information for our September 7, 2006 meeting, attached aze copies of the
correspondence that the Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety (Division) has
concerning the hillside dischazge issue (spring or mine water discharge?) at the Bear No.
3 Mine. Attached are the following:
Letter dated May 9, 2000 with attachments from Bear Coal Company to the
Division, requesting relief from dischazge monitoring requirements, arguing that
the discharge from the hillside is not Bear No. 3 mine water discharge.
2. Letter dated September 9, 2004 with attachments from J.E. Stover & Associates
(copies of laboratory results available on request) to the Division providing
additional information in support of Bear's argument.
Laboratory results for September 13, 2004 sampling of the hillside dischazge
water.
4. Division Internal Memorandum dated Febnaazy 23, 2005 discussing results of
September 13, 2004 sampling.
Laboratory results for February 19, 2005 sampling of the hillside dischazge water,
as well as of the river upstream and the river downstream of the mine.
6. Division Internal Memorandum dated April 12, 2005 discussing the results of the
February 19, 2005 sampling (referred to in memo as January 2005 sampling).
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