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• 2.05.6(6) <br />The Division of Water resources recognize beneficial use as the use for <br />which a water right is claimed such a irrigation, domestic, stock watering, <br />industrial etc. The District Court determines through the ruling of the Water <br />Referee that water has been appropriated and applied to beneficial use. <br />Therefore, of the springs in the permit and adjacent area, only the J & M <br />Springs and Pipelines Nos. 1 through 5 have been put to beneficial use. <br />Disruption of perched water bearing zones will occur due to mining where the <br />water bearing zones lie in the immediate vicinity of the mine roof. Because <br />of the nature of this groundwater, this does not constitute any affect on <br />groundwater resources. The local perched water-bearing zones would be <br />disrupted, but are limited in extent and are not put to beneficial use. No <br />affect on area water utilization is anticipated. <br />Hubbard Creek road and numerous jeep trails in the permit and adjacent <br />area could be damaged by a subsidence crack causing a hazard to foot or <br />.vehicle traffic. Repairs to the roads and trails will be performed by <br />• appropriate earth-moving equipment. Typically, roads and trails are <br />maintained on an annual basis, as required, to access environmental <br />resources monitoring stations. Persons using trails will be notified of any <br />hazards. Those persons are typically the operator's employees, hunters and <br />monitoring personnel. <br />It is not expected that subsidence will affect the stability of old landslides to <br />the extent that their deformations could be renewed. Attention will have to <br />be paid to mining close to the coal outcrop. The Operator will leave one row <br />of development pillars between the outcrop and extracted pillars within the <br />panel. No repairs are currently required, but procedures could be developed <br />if studies show outcrop barrier pillar problems are anticipated. <br />Differential vertical settlement due to subsidence over a short distance could <br />result in local changes in ground surface and slopes. If such changes occur <br />along an ephemeral or intermittent stream channel, the stream's gradient will <br />change. Any gradient change will impact the stream characteristics. In an <br />extreme case, gradient changes may disrupt the flow. Such an event is not <br />• probable in topographic conditions of the area where most stream channels <br />PR-04 2.05 - 104 - o~/o~ <br />