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W H1TE BANKS MINE Page 6 EXFIIBI7' C underground, or in the water tanker (or pickup-mounted tank) itself ACMA intends to drill a well in the main yazd area to provide a permanent water supply for the life of the operation. ACMA has contracted with appropriate consultants to locate and permit this well. On-site water distribution will be by means of underground metal or plastic pipe of appropriate size for the service intended. 6.3.3(1)(1) Ground Water, Surface Water Encountered/Disturbed; Sediment Coutainment System; Storm Water Runoff Control; Groundwater Points of Compliance Avalanche Creek Mazble & Alabaster does not anticipate encountering or disturbing ground water in its surface operations or excavations or grading therefore. Avalanche Creek Marble & Alabaster does not anticipate encountering or disturbing sienificant_ amounts of groundwater in its underground operations. ACMA does not anticipate encountering groundwater in quantities requiring discharge above the water table. Because of the nature of the geology of the Sopris syncline, on which the White Banks claims occupy the up-dip end, or nose, ACMA does not anticipate encountering or disturbing groundwater in quantities requiring discharge below the water table. There are no permanent or intermittent streams within the affected area. There are no ponds, lakes, or ditches within the permit area. ACMA therefore does not anticipate encountering or disturbing surface water in its surface or underground operations. Because of the extremely small size of the disturbed azea (approximately 2.7 acres) an extensive and formal sediment containment system, such as ditches, culverts, and sediment ponds, which could disturb an azea equally as great or more, is not contemplated. Sediment, which will be produced exclusively as a result of storm water runoff and snowmelt, will be settled by grading the mine bench to create a catch basin against the portal face cut to receive runofffrom the portal face cut and bench. Water caught in this basin will evaporate or percolate through the bench material; excess water, if any, will run off the bench via the ditch along the west side which conducts drainage from the dry gulch at the west edge of the permit area through the site; this ditch currently exists and will be modified only slightly. Drainage from the mine bench outslope will be directedi through the mine yard by grading to settle in gravel via sheet Clow. Runoff from the lower mine road, the west ditch, and excess from the mine yazd, if any, will be duected into the existing FDR 310 ditch, which then drains across FDR 310 just west of the permit boundary by means of a low dip crossing, into the meadow on the southwest side of the road. On the lower, southwest side of FDR 310 the natural drainage is incoherent. Snowmelt drainage when the ground is frozen simply meanders through the trees and meadow where snow cover allows, even under snow in some cases, with no consistent identifiable channel (there is a newly cutting channel further to the southwest, along and just outside of the southwest permit area boundary, which takes drainage from the lazge Red Canyon water bar on FDR .e. v~na. is9v ~i ann