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• 2.04.7 <br />RESPONSE continued <br />Uses of surface water resources within the adjacent areas are <br />limited to irrigation and domestic applications. Table 5 lists <br />surface water rights. The moat sizable rights e~rist on Temple <br />and Emrich gulchs which, although within the adjacent areas, <br />are probably hydrologically ~ isolated from the affected areas <br />within the proposed permit area. <br />The Hayden Gulch ditch, Magden ditch and J. C. Temple Reser- <br />voir No. 2 and ditch appear.to be abandoned. The Dry Creek <br />ditch and Dillabaugh reservior are the only active surface water <br />rights within the adjacent area which receive runoff from the <br />propaed permit area. <br />~ THE PROPOSED PERMIT AREA - The Southern portion of the <br />• proposed permit area is situated in the Williams Fork mountains <br />astride the drainage divide between the Williams Fork and Yampa <br />river. The head waters of Dowden Gulch, Haden Gulch, Temple <br />Gulch and Watering Trough Gulch east within this portion. A <br />branch of Dowden Gulch enters this portion near its Southeast <br />corner and casts almost immediately thereafter. This branch <br />would not be interrupted by mining activities under the proposed <br />permit. Otherwise, only diffused overland flows enter the <br />Southern portion from small areas upalope from the proposed <br />permit boundary. <br />Because of the relatively small watershed areas within this <br />Southern portion and their steep terrain which is unsuited for <br />agricultural or domestic activities, no pre-mining development of <br />surface water resources has occured in the Southern portion of <br />the proposed permit area. <br />The Northern portion of the proposed permit area is basically <br />within the lower part of the Dry Creek watershed. A segment <br />of the railapur linking the loadout area with the D. i R. G. W. <br />railroad mainline and a well with a buried distribution main <br />