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Ms. Lorraine Stepenske Division of Minerals and Geology September 24, 1992 Page 4 The Division of Water Resources has their own procedure for reviewing well applications for gravel pits and how they may affect nearby wells. Specifically, the applicant for a well permit on a gravel pit should try to get written agreements from any well owners within 600 feet of the operation and include those with his well permit application. If these cannot be obtained from all well owners within 600 feet, (who all receive written notification of the well permit), the well owner may object to the well permit application. In this case, the State Engineer will hold a hearing on the matter and render a decision about possible impacts and measures where the applicant needs to replace water to well owners. Your request in Paragraph 8 both duplicates and greatly exceeds the requirements of the Division of Water Resources. We would like to specifically answer the three items included in No. 8 as follows: (a) Our application does note the depth of groundwater over the site. Since we have no affect on water quality by the mining operation, we believe the temperature and the conductivity of the water is not an issue here. (b) We will not be monitoring any wells other than those which are immediately adjacent to the operation. Therefore, the specific location of wells within 4,000 feet is not important. well permits generally only locate wells within a 40 acre parcel. In order to find the specific locations of these wells one would have to obtain permission to enter private property and then search for wells. As you can imagine this would take quite a bit of time. If any well owner in the area has a problem, we expect them to either contact the operator or their local water commissioner. If this occurs then we will know the location of that well through the complaint.