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.. ~ ~ ~ R~~eiv~d <br />NOM AKE SrrP Z 4 <br />!!!!!!~~~~~~~666666 ?0p' <br />ENVIRONMENTAL. HEALTH. SAFF^'-- {//~/y~-j_ <br />AND GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS III IIIIIIIII IIII'll1 "W~nO /^-F•e,~O~o <br />999 "O `~ 8 Or~.,~ <br />-++/ <br />September 18, 2001 ®~~~~~ ®4 <br />~~r~~a~ ~~~ ,= B~~ <br />~~C';e;~/3y~~~/~~~>>~z1~~ <br />State of Colorado ~/y~~p`p"'~- ~/<7,(~ ~` <br />Division of Minerals and Geology 5 <br />Durango Field Office y ~~rfS <br />701 Camino Del Rio, Room 125 <br />Durango, CO 81301 <br />(~i~~~'~~9[~~ <br />AI[n: Mr. Steve S. Shuey, Reclamation Specialist <br />RE: Bulldog Mine Reclamation Project SCP ~ 'l 2009 <br />August, 2001 Monthly Monitoring Report <br />Division of Minerals and Geology <br />Dear Mr. Shuey: <br />Pursuant to the Technical Revisions to the Reclamation Permit for the Bulldog Reclamation <br />Project, this is the forty-fifth monthly report pertaining to 11 installation and operation of an <br />infiltration trench to accommodate seepage from the 9360 adit, and 21 closing the valve at the <br />9360 adit plug. The Division of Minerals and Geology (DMG1, in a letter dated March 8, <br />1999, issued a conditional approval for Homestake Mining Company IHMCI to close [he valve <br />at the 9360 adit plug. Subsequent to DMG's approval, HMC closed the valve to the adit ploy <br />on April 1, 1999. Since closure of the adit plug valve, no flow has been directed into the <br />infiltration trench. Monitoring of the hydraulic conditions behind the adit plug indicated that as <br />of August 25, 1999, conditions had stabilized fie pressure measurements stabilized). As a <br />result, DMG approved initiation of the planned tracer test (Ref: Letter from WMCI to Mr. Steve <br />Shuey, dated August 27, 1999). The tracer test subsequently began on September 9, 1999. <br />With the initiation of the tracer test, HMC is committed to the monitoring summarized in Table <br />1 in accordance with the approved Technical Revisions. <br />The revised monitoring program was initiated in September 1999. A summary of the monthly <br />monitoring data is presented in Table 2. Based on the required visual inspection around the <br />adit plug, the plug is impounding water behind it with no signs of seepage and/or develop~Tten[ <br />of seeps around the portal area. A pressure measurement and visual observation was <br />completed of the 9360 adit plug and portal on August 8, 2001 and recorded in Table 3. <br />As part of this monthly report and in accordance with the 9360 Level Adit Closure Monitoring <br />Plan, dated April 1998, Windy Gulch monitoring was continued during this period. Water <br />levels in the Creede Formation Well, located upslope of the 9360 Adit, have been recorded <br />continuously since its installation, and data for the last year are presented graphically in Figure <br />1. Flow data for the WGL Weir has been recorded continuously with an automated datalogger <br />since April 17, 2001. Flow data for the WGL Weir are presented in Figure 2. A water quality <br />sample IWGL Weir) was taken on August 8, 2001. The analytical results for this sample are <br />attached. <br />HOMESTAKE MINING COMPANY <br />P.O BD% 90 • GRANTS, NM B]020-0011 <br />