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<br />EXHIBIT D -MINING PLAN <br />General Concept, Exhibit pg 8, first paragraph, last sentence. <br />The wording of this sentence suggests that this access road has already been relocated and currently <br />serves the Line Camp ranch headquarters. This is not the case. The only access that currently exists from <br />Highway 145 to the Line Camp is the 10-foot-wide unpaved access road through the Line Camp riding <br />area and stables. Refer to plat on Exhibit pg 60 for location of this road, and to Exhibit S -Permanent <br />Man-made Structures, Article No. 2 on Exhibit pg 54 for a brief description. <br />General Concept, Exhibit pg 8, second paragraph. <br />This paragraph indicates that storm water from [he upper level (firs[ phase) of [he gravel operations will <br />flow through an existing gravity drain pipe, and storm water and dewatering flows from the second phase <br />of operations will be pumped through this same existing pipe. The plat on Exhibit pg 60 shows the <br />inflow to this pipe located at the southeast comer of the proposed gravel pit, and the outlet of this pipe <br />into the Dolores River at the boundary between the Truelsen and Robinson properties (see also the <br />Ownership map on Exhibit pg 50). There is currently no visible physical evidence of the existence of such <br />an outlet in the location depicted on the maps. Neither a pipe or evidence of a water channel is apparent <br />(see attached photograph). It is assumed that an outflow pipe capable of handling storm water and <br />dewatering flows from the proposed gravel pit would be large enough to be easily visible. (The outflow <br />pipe for the Twin Spruce pits measures 18 inches in diameter and is quite visible at modern ground <br />surface.) <br />Initial Site Development <br />ACCESS, Exhibit pg 9. <br />This first sentence states that the pit will be opened by using the existine 30-foot-wide Line Camp access <br />road from Highway 145. At current time, the only access road that exists is the 10-foot-wide access road <br />through the Line Camp riding area and stables, as was pointed out above. If a 30-foot-wide access is to <br />be constructed for the gravel mining operations, this should be stated, not misrepresented as an existing <br />access. This misrepresentation is also in Table D-I, located on this same page. <br />Initial Face Work , pg 10, first paragraph. <br />The paragraph indicates that the initial phase of mining will be to a depth of no more than 10 feet below <br />the stripped surface to allow continued gravity drainage of any water collecting in the pit through the <br />existine drain pipe. This leads one to believe that the inlet for the alleged existing drain pipe is located at <br />a depth of approximately 12 feet below the present ground surface (24 inches of topsoil stripping plus 10 <br />feet of gravel excavations). The location of the pipe inlet is labeled as Dewa[ering Discharge, on Map <br />C-2B on Exhibit Page 6. On Exhibit pg 59, the description of the drain pipe indicates that it is a 700-foot <br />pipeline used to return irrigation flows and storm water from the irrigated cropland on which the gravel <br />pit is to be located. It is difficult to imagine how return Flows and storm waste water enter a pipeline <br />located 12 feet below the ground surface. Plat C-I on Exhibit Page 4 shows the lower feeder ditches from <br />the Home Ditch flowing over the top of the drain pipe (not identified but apparent in the drawing), and <br />into the Dolores river, suggesting that return irrigation relies on this ditch, not on a subsurface pipeline. <br />-3- <br />