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~. Your notes asked whether further sampling would be necessary at Ute Ule. I would have to look into the file to see what goes, but based on my last look, the Henson Creek water quality was good and showed no signs of contamination from the Ute Ule property. Provided the Division has been provided 5 quarters of baseline water quality results, I would conclude that sampling there could cease unless and until the mill re-activates under this permit. On a related item, sampling at the Golden Wonder is another story. Your note questioned whether continued sampling was necessary at the Golden Wonder mine. Indeed, monitoring is required under DMG's groundwater authority at the Golden Wonder mine and it should continue as long as the mine is active. That we have not received any year 2000 sampling results is somewhat disturbing. The purpose of monitoring at Golden Wonder is to assure that groundwater is not being contaminated over and above the ambient condition. I would say frankly, looking over the analytical results table that you sent, that the huge range of values for metals and pH makes prescribing the ambient condition a considerable challenge. When pH rests in the 2 to 3 range, as it apparently does in most of the near-mine samples at the Golden Wonder mine, dissolved metals concentrations typically show extreme fluctuations. Moreover, it would be difficult to detect metal concentrations any higher than the existing data show because some of the metals are near their saturation limits. Thus, I would conclude that monitoring should continue at the site. While it is feasible that monitoring could be limited to a lesser number of stations, given the extreme variation in water quality results we currently have I would recommend adding to the existing data to better define the ambient condition. cc: Bruce Humphries Tom Gillis Attachment