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- <br />STATE OF COLORADO <br />Bill thvens, Governor <br />Douglas H. Benevento, Executive Director <br />Dedicated to protetting and improving the health and environrrrent o(dre people o/Colorado <br />4300 Cherry Creek Dr. 5. Laboratory and Radiation Servites~Division <br />Denver, Colorado 80246-1530 8100 Lowry Blvd. <br />Phone (303) 692-2000 Denver, Colorado 80230-6928 <br />TDD Line (303) 691-7700 (303) 692-3090 <br />Located in Glendale, Colorado <br />httpJ/www.cdphe.state.m.us <br />Apri14, 2005 <br />J.E. Stover, P.E. <br />Stover and Associates Inc. <br />2768 Compass Drive, Suite 101 <br />Grand Junction, CO 81506 <br />RE: CDPS Permit No. CO-0044377, Bear Coal Company <br />Deaz Mr. Stover: <br />RECEIVED <br />APR ~ ti 2005 <br />Division of Minerals & Geology <br />This letter is in regazds to the question about the spring water flowing across the Bear Coal Company's mine facility area. Tn <br />you letter dated Mazch 16, 2005, you were questioning the need for the Bear Coal Company's permit to cover the spring water <br />that is currently muted into a treatment pond. The spring in question daylighted after part of a hillslope gave-way during a <br />small landslide. The Bear Coal Company initially routed this water into one of its treatment ponds and was monitoring the <br />flow and water quality as if the water were a part of its discharge permit <br />It is the Water Quality Control Division's (Division) understanding that the Division of Minerals and Geology, u well as the <br />Bear Coal Company, studied the spring water and compared it with water from nearby alluvial wells, and to the mine water. <br />The result of these investigations was that the spring water was considered to be separate from the mine water, and was <br />associated with the landslide and not the mine. The Division agrees with this conclusion, and does not object to the Bear Coal <br />Company rerouting this water from their treatment ponds. <br />An amendment to the dischazge permit is not necessary at this time as this rerouting of the spring water will not alter any part <br />of the currettt discharge permit <br />If you have any questions, please contact me at (303) 692-3655. <br />Sincerely, <br />~~~ <br />Andrew J. Neuhart <br />Pemaits Unit <br />Water Quality Control Division <br />,. i _ <br />.. . <br />,.. <br />zc: 'It~Iike•1•Iavens,DE: . <br />:; :::i:~„•r. •~~::.. <br />;'=PerinitFile .. ... ~,:..:. <br />