PERMFILE63706

• Permit No: M2006046
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 1/3/2007
• Doc Name: Response to 2nd Adequacy Review
• From: Banks and Gesso, LLC
• To: DRMS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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Mr. Alex Schatz
Banks and Gesso, LLC
720 Kipling Street, Suite 117
Lakewood, Colorado 80215
Martin and Wood Water Consultants, Inc.
602 Park Point Drive, Suite 275, Golden, CO 80401
Phone: [phone] . Fax: [phone]
www, martinandwood.tom
December 29, 2006
Re: Responses to DBMS
Grand River Park Project
Project Number 680.1
Dear Mr. Schatz;
Pursuant to ottr recent meetings acid discussions, this letter summarizes our
responses to date to the questions raised in the Division of Reclamation, Mining and
Safety ("DBMS") Adequacy Review No.2, dated October 4, 2006, for the proposed
Grand River Park Project located near Silt in Garfield County, Colorado. As per our
discussions, we are responding specifically to the issues raised by DBMS in their item 21
from their October 4 letter. These are issues relating to the ground water at the site and
how the dewatering during mining of the cells will impact the local water table, the
ditches in the area, the river and local vegetation.
W e will address in turn each of the item 21 questions to which we are responding.
Note that in many cases we are responding to a part or parts of the question proposed.
Input from Banks and Gesso or Mr. Mike McDermid may be required to address every
component of these questions.
21.a. DBMS requests a map and tabulation of all registered wells within 600 feet of the
proposed excavation areas (mine cells). Banks and Gesso has prepared a map presenting
the locations of the wells meeting this criterion. Wells within 600 feet of the proposed
excavation areas are presented on the Banks and Gesso Exhibit C-1, and are designated
on the map by a W inside of a circle. A brief note on the owner and permit number of
each well is presented on the Exhibit.
We have prepared a summary tabulation, attached, of the available data (such as
well completion data and well type) on the wells derived from the well permit files. Note
that the locations may have to be field checked in more detail; however, we are assuming
for purposes of this response letter that the wells identified by Banks and Gesso and
presented on their Exhibit C-1 map are, in fact, in existence at the locations indicated.