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• <br />~~ ~-. ~ . , <br />.~ <br />Colorado Yampa Coal Company <br />July 24, 1985 -. <br />~ III IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII <br />29588 Routt County Road #27 Oak Creek. CO 80467 • (3031879-3800 <br />Mr. Donald Simpson <br />Mr. Jon Kubic <br />Colorado Department of Health <br />Water Quality Control Division <br />4210 East 11th Avenue <br />Denver, Colorado 80220 <br />Mr. Dan Mathews <br />Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Division <br />423 Centennial Building <br />1313 Sherman Street <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />.. ..> <br />JllL2 ^ ~ngC <br />„ , ~,~~ orr+~ p~^'T'^'1 <br />Re: Pond F Spring By-Pass, CYCC Permit 79-177, NPDES Permit CO-0027154 <br />Dear Sirs: <br />I am writing this in order to get a resolution regarding Colorado Yampa <br />Coal Company's (CYCC's) request to divert around Pond F a new spring water <br />discharge. As previously addressed Pond F is not designed to handle discharge <br />from the spring. Our original request to bypass this discharge around Pond F <br />was deemed inappropriate by Colorado Water Quality Control Division (WQCD) <br />(November 6, 1984). Subsequently, Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Division <br />(CMLRD) denied CYCC's minor revision to bypass the spring water around Pond F <br />based on the WQCD decision (November 19, 1984). Then WQCD informed us that <br />they were still evaluating this discharge and as a result, could not tell us <br />how to handle it and suggested we contact CMLRD (February 13, 1985). CMLRD <br />then approved as a temporary measure the plan to divert the spring flow around <br />Pond F (June 13, 1985). However, CYCC does not want to implement a temporary <br />diversion that may jeopardize resolution of the situation with WQCD or jeopar- <br />dize final reclamation concerns of CMLRD. In addition, CYCC does not want to <br />implement an expensive interim program only to be told it is not satisfactory. <br />CYCC is trying to resolve the situation and has submitted a petition (June 26, <br />1985) to get the water quality standards changed to reflect the ambient water <br />quality conditions but have not received any response yet. Therefore, we re- <br />quest that a meeting be held as soon as possible, involving WQCD, CMLRD and <br />CYCC to resolve the issue on how to proceed at this time. Please let me know <br />as soon as possible when we can meet. <br />Si / erel~,y~ <br />etrell K.~rnson <br />Environmental Coordinator <br />TKJ:kmk <br />cc: M. Kondelis <br />R. Hughes <br />K. Crofts <br />