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E[k <br />baseline flow records, initiating the monitoring of springs more than a year prior to mining in the <br />area will have two benefits. First, the data can be used to initially determine whether the <br />established baseline has changed significantly. Second, the new data will serve to build on the <br />existing database ofpre-mining spring flows. <br />In the Minnesota Creek drainage basin, monitoring was discontinued for springs J-4, J-7, J-10 and <br />WCC-23 until the summer before mining impacts can be expected. Sampling of spring J-4 was <br />reinitiated in 1996. Based on a survey WWE conducted in the fall 2004, MCC is adding four <br />springs to the monitoring program (Table 9). Spring 32-16 is near the historic location ofWCC-24, <br />downgradient from Minnesota Reservoir. Spring 33-1 is on the left bank of Deer Creek, upstream <br />of the confluence with Dry Fork. Spring 35-3 is located on the left bank of Deep Creek. Spring 9-1 <br />is in the Lick Creek drainage downstream of the U.S. Forest Service boundary. All of these springs <br />were observed during the 1996 and 2004 field surveys conducted by WWE, and therefore aze not <br />considered to be significantly affected by drought. Map 34 shows the locations of these springs. <br />Monitoring of a group of three springs (G-25, G-28a and G-31) in Gribble Gulch and one spring <br />(G-26a) in Lone Pine Gulch were discontinued for several years due to access being blocked by <br />landslides. The monitoring of spring G-26a in Lone Pine Gulch, spring G-25 (#15, Jumbo Spring <br />No. 2 Pond) and spring G-31 (#18, Jumbo Mountain Spring No. 4 Pond) were resumed in 1993. <br />Spring G-28a was not located during the Jumbo Mountain field investigations, but was found to <br />again be flowing in 1994, and monitoring was resumed. Fourteen springs and/or ponds idenfified <br />on the Jumbo Mountain tract (Map 34) were monitored for baseline data and were all monitored <br />during and after mining in the azea. The number of sites monitored in the Jumbo Mountain azea <br />was reduced in 1999. Spring G-29 was found, but the spring no longer exists (i.e., no flow), and <br />was not added to the monitoring program. <br />MCC conducted baseline monitoring of four perennial springs (Springs 15-1, 15-2, 26-1, and 27- <br />1) and six ephemeral springs (E10-2, E10-3, E10-4, E15-3, G-7 and G-8) within the Apache <br />Rocks permit revision area. These springs, (except G-7 and G-8) were identified during a field <br />survey completed by MCC's consultants, Savage and Savage, and Greystone Development <br />Consultants, Inc. during the fall of 1994 and 1995. None of the other ephemeral springs shown <br />on Map 37 in Sections 26, 27, and 28 were located during these surveys. Only a representative <br />group of springs, based on the baseline data collected, were added to the monitoring program as <br />listed on Table 9. <br />MCC will begin baseline monitoring of perennial springs 10-1 and 24-3, and the site of a potential <br />ephemeral spring, E-14-1. No flow has been observed from the ephemeral spring, but vegetation is <br />indicative of short-term water flow. These springs aze located in or neaz the Box Canyon permit <br />revision area. <br />Of the 50 springs in the South of Divide permit area, nineteen have been historically <br />monitored, although none is presently. MCC will re-initialize monitoring of these springs <br />at least one year prior to the occurrence of mining within the area influence. <br />Monitoring will continue, on a seasonal basis, for the springs in the approved monitoring program <br />2.04-89 Revised November 2004 PR/0 <br />