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_. CC • III IIIIIIIIIIIII III ~ ~~ ~~~t^t Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company v A Joint Venture -Pikes Peak Mining Company, Manager ~~ Operations Office P.O. Box 191, 2755 State Highway 67 Victor, Colorado 80860 (719) 689-2977 • FAX (719) 689-3254 April 14, 1995 Englewood Ofllce 5251 DTC Parkway, Suite 700, E~~e o~~~.~E~ Colorado 80111 (303) 889-0700 • FAX (303) 889~~ 1 7 1995 SENT BY FASCIMILE AND REGULAR MAILivision a minerals a t;eoiuy;~ Mr. Mike Long, Director Division of Minerals and Geology Colorado Department of Natural Resources 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 Denver, Colorado 80203 Dear Mike: I am attaching a copy of a letter recently received from Ms. Pat Nelson of the Water Quality Control Division. That letter concerns the Water Quality Control Division's belief that certain dischazge permit issues remain to be resolved. In that letter, Ms. Nelson states, with respect to conversation with the Division of Minerals and Geology, the following: "initial discussions with personnel from the State Division of Minerals and Geology indicate that, from a geological perspective, there is a significant potential for drainage from CC&V properties to enter the Roosevelt Tunnel," and "similar discussions with the DMG indicate that flow may originate in the Roosevelt Tunnel at a point further inside the mountain that [sic] what CC&V has indicated, and it is possible that some hydraulic connection may exist between the flows that eventually exit from the separate Carlton and Roosevelt Tunnels." I would appreciate the opportunity to discuss with you this letter and its apparent reliance on information attributed to Office of Mined Land Reclamation staff. As I have recently discussed with Berhan Keffelew, it appears that the Water Quality Control Division paid little attention to our eyewitness exploration of the Roosevelt Tunnel that documented the lack of flow in that Tunnel between the Cresson Project mine area and the portal and the resulting source of Roosevelt Tunnel flow from outside the Project area. That is information we submitted to the Water Quality Control Division in January (with a copy to Mr. Keffelew). The purpose of the meeting would be to assure that your staff has the information that the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company has generated and sent to the Water Quality Control Division and to try to avoid future mis-communication with that Division. I have also asked Dave Holm for a sepazate meeting to discuss the Water Quality Control Division's letter. I will call you after you have an opportunity to be briefed to see if you have 30 minutes for a review of this issue.