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Page two fact still remains that water is not existing from Bear's portals. Beaz Coal believes that the water is exiting from the hillside from the old Edward's mine portals. The Edwazd's portals aze located at the B seam outcrop elevation, and the Bear portals being in the upper C seam, approximately fifty feet of separation between the two portals Edwazd's Mine did have portals within the area that the water is immerging from the hillside. An older photo that was taken during Bear's active construction at the mine site demonstrates the evidence of the portals. The photo shows old concrete sWChues that were used by the Edwards employees. (See photo #2). A major portion of the Edwazd's mining activities was in the B seam, shown on a mine map that is furnished. (See map #1) Upon review of the mine map provided, the map shows that the B and C seam have a slight dip of 3 to 5% in a northeasterly direction. If water is present within the Bear's workings the water should be coming out of the old fan portal which is the lowest of elevation, but the water is not coming from the C seam portals but that of the lower B azeas. The entire mined area overlying the previous mined Edwazd's workings, was dry up to the date of mine closure and was dry the day the Bear's portals were sealed. Upon review of the water records, within the affected area, has shown that the water in the subsoil was present by the water samples that were taken from Well AAI, which was buried from the landslide. Conductivity of the water in Well AAl, in 1987, shows a relativity low conductivity number until 1989, when the conductivity greatly increased in value, varying in the 3000 mhos/cm range. When the water from AAI, is compared to the water in AA3, which is located in a northeasterly direction from AAI, there is a draniatic difference in the conductivity values, basically 300Nmhos/cm versus 3000Nmhos/cm values. (See graph and values # 1 and #2) Water samples that have been collected from the water exiting from the hillside show relative the same conductivity values that were sampled from Well AA I. The conductivity of the water coming from the hillside has held basically stable, some samples have increased in conductivity and some samples have a lower value, but basically have held stable. The question has to be raised if the water is coming from one single source further in the mountain or has it been stored in old mine workings and finally has filtered a path to the surface. Photo number three shows that the movement of the hillside is probably not related to any mining activities but is probably the movement of the alluvial material that has been moving for several years through normal erosion. Although, the alluvial material probably broke away from the main structwe of the mountain at the B and C seam outcrop level thus, making the cliff looking structure that remains today. When the slippage of the alluvial material at the outcrop level occurred, the plug that held the water back was removed, allowing the flowage of water to the surface at the constant rate that is seen today. There was probably some flowage in the shallow subsoils that went unnoticed. The old Edward's mine could have been, and still possibly full of water either from spring water that has accumulated for past yeazs, or possibly from external filling from surrounding areas, and