PERMFILE56422

• Permit No: M1983194
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 11/3/1983
• Doc Name: IRI NAHCOLITE SOLUTION MINE PROJECT FN 83-194
• From: MLRD
• To: INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES INC
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

RICHARD D. LAMM
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OFFICE OF THE STATE ENGINEER
DIVISION OF WATER RESOURCES
1313 Sherman Street-Room 818
Denver, Colorado 80203
[phone]
November 1, 1983
FROM: Hal D. Simpson, Assistant State Engineer
SUBJECT: Industrial Resources, Inc. - Nahcolite Solution Mine
Application for Mining and Reclamation Permit, #83-194
JERIS A. DANIELSON
State Engineer
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MINED LAND RECLAMATION DIVISION
Colo. Dept. of Natural Resources
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T0: Peter V. O'Connor, Mined Land Reclamation V'.J~
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As requested, we have reviewed the above referenced application for a Nahcolite
Solution Mine southeast of Meeker. The application indicates that the first
alternative for a water supply for the mine is an existing well located in the
SE1/4 of Section 23, T1S, R98W. All wells constructed after May 17, 1965 are
required by CRS 1973, 37-90-137, to have a well permit. We have no record of
a well permit existing for the above discussed well. Therefore, unless this
well was constructed before May 17, 1965, it is an illegal well and cannot be
used without obtaining a permit. The availability of a new well permit in
this area is very questionable. Even if the well was constructed before May
of 1965 and is legal, it is still subject to being called out by senior water
right holders in the White River basin.
The second proposed source of water for the mine operation is a well adjudi-
cated in Water Court Case W-1922. Water may be diverted to meet the mining
needs in accordance with this decree. Once again, however, the water right is
subject to a call by senior water right holders. The well permit for this
well, number 11527-F, has expired. The applicant could have this permit
re-issued subject to the stipulations of the above referenced court case.
of diversion for the well discussed in the second paragraph. Industrial
Resources has also filed for this change with the Water Court. The applica-
tion, if approved, would allow both wells to divert water under the W-1922
decree. Our Ground Water Section is presently reviewing this application.
Concerning the sources described above, we have received an application to use
the well discussed in thc; first paragraph of this letter as an alternate point
The mining permit application states on page E-7 that due to the small scale
and short duration of thc: Pilot solution operations, negligible impacts are