PERMFILE70071

• Permit No: C1980007
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 3/4/2002
• Doc Name: Application for Water System on Project ‎(MR273)‎
• Section_Exhibit Name: Exhibit 80 Drilling Activities - MR274
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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• MOUN1AfN (OAL
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A Subsidiary of Arch W<sicrn Resources, LLC
Apri] 17, 2001
Mr. James Bumel]
Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology
Office of Mined Land Reclama[ion
] 313 Sherman Street, Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
MAR ~ 4 2002
Division of Minerals and Geology
West Elk Mlne
P.O. Baa 591
5174 Highway 133
Somerset, CO 81434
[phone]
Far [phone]
Re: Mountain Coal Company LLC (MCC), West Elk Mine; Permit No. C-80-007; Minor
Revision 274, V1'ater System for the Gob Vent / De-Gas Bore Hole Project
• Dear Mr. Burnell:
As we discussed in our telephone conversation today, MCC is requesting a minor revision to its permit
for a temporary water system to support the drilling associated with the gob/vent de-gas bore hole
project (MR-273). The system will reduce the impacts of travel by water trucks on United States
Forest Service (USFS) roads. This will help reduce the safely and envirotunental risks on the roads by
contractors and the general public. The system will also allow for additional dust and fire suppression
on MCC private lands and lands owned by the USFS.
MCC proposes to place aloes-pressure, high-volume pump at the mine de-watering borehole facility.
The water would be pumped in a 6" pipeline along the main roadway and the Main Stem of Sylvester
Gulch, approximately 4,5001ineaz feet to a portable tank (500 bbl. "frac" tank), located just inside
MCC's property in the SE1/4, SE1/4, Section 21, T.13S., R.90W., 6'h P.M. A second pump (high-
pressure, low-volume) would then be installed to pump water 6,000 lineaz feet, along an existing ATV
trail on USFS lands, via high pressure 2" hose to second portable tank (500 bbl. "frac" tank) located in
the vicinity of "Two Ponds". Two Ponds is located neaz the drill pad identified as SOM 126 in the
NEl/4, SE1/4, Section 27, T.13 S., R.90W., 6thPM.
It is planned that the ATV trail, from the Sylvester Gulch power line road to MCCs property boundary,
a distance of approximately 650 feet, will need to be widened to approximately l2 feet in order to
• accommodate the width of the temporar}~ tank. A pad approximately' 60 feet long and 12 feet wide will
be constructed on MCC's property to accommodate the temporary tank and pump placement. Topsoil
will be salvaged and stored in a small pile for re-distribution. A topsoil sign will be placed on the pile.