HYDRO28930

• Permit No: M1980244
• IBM Index Class Name: Hydrology
• Doc Date: 8/21/1997
• Doc Name: CRESSON PROJECT PN M-80-244 RE-CONFIRMATION OF GROUND WATER MONITORING IN WELLS WCRM 2 & 9
• From: CRIPPLE CREEK & VICTOR GOLD MINING CO
• To: DMG
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company
A Jo~m Venture - Pikes Peak Mining Company, Manager
Operations Office
PO. Box 191, 2755 State Highway 67
Victor CO 80860
[phone] • FAX [phone]
1997
Englewood Office
P.O. Box 5078, 5251 DTC Parkway, Suite 700
Englewood, CO 80155
[phone] • FAX [phone]
SENT CERTIFIED RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED
P 216 649 567
Mr. H. Bruce Humphries
Supervisor, Minerals Program
Colorado Department of Natural Resources
Division of Mines and Geology
Office of Mined Land Reclamation
1313 Sherman Street, Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
RECEIVED
AUG 21 1991
~iuision of Minerals ~ Ueoiogy
Reference: Cresson Proiect: Permit M-80-244: Re-Confirmation of Ground Water
Monitoring in Wells WCRM 2 and 9.
Dear Mr. Keffele~v:
It has been requested by your Office that the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company
("CC&V") confirm and further re-cotttmit to monitoring certain CC&V-installed ground-water
monitoring wells and this be accomplished as an element of the Technical Revision submitted
to your Office by CC&V on July 28, 1997. The identified wells are located along the drainage
divide between the Arequa Gulch and Bateman Creek drainages. The purpose of the proposed
confirmation and commitment is, as CC&V understands it, for CC&V to restate that CC&V
intends to continue to operate in accordance with its authorizations. These authorizations include
operating in a manner that protects ground-water quality beneath the ephemeral surface water
course designated as "Bateman Creek," a minor first order tributary of the Wilson Creek
watershed, from degradation attributable to CC&V's operations -degradation that would
adversely affect reasonable uses of that water.
CC&V, through this letter, reiterates that it is monitoring, and that it will continue (unless it
receives an approval to do otherwise) to monitor the quality of water that enters ground-water
wells [hat it presently monitors in association with its authorizations from the Office of Mined
Land Reclamation. CC&V does not agree that this reiteration, or statement, is a technical
revision of the permi[ and respectfully declines to have it considered such. As you are aware,
CC&V is now, and always has, monitored water quality in these wells in accord with the
conditions that have been imposed by the Office. Therefore, nothing is being "revised."
The nvo wells that have been installed along the Arequa Gulch -Bateman Creek drainage divide
and which are specifically addressed here are designated "WCRM-2" and "WCRM-9." Well
WCRM-2 was installed by CC&V as part of the investigations performed for an early version
of "Amendment Number 5" to the referenced permit. Well WCMW-9 was installed in direct