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2.04.5 page 8 <br />Menefee Formation - The upper part of this formation contains , <br />the coal seam being mined at the King Coal Mine. Fifty years of <br />mining has not encountered any ground water in this formation. <br />There has never been any discharge of ground water from the King <br />Coal Mine. Some surface run off from the western up-slope gully <br />has seeped into the old abandoned mine workings in high run off <br />years. Normally the amount of water is relatively small. However, <br />some of this water was pumped from the mine during the spring of <br />1979, because of a leaking seal between the old workings and the <br />active mine workings. <br />Well Number 1 has a static water level 76 feet below ground <br />level. Ground level at that point is at an elevation of 7,390 feet <br />above sea level. Well Number 2 has a static water level 42 feet <br />below ground level. Ground level at that point is at an elevation <br />of 7,410 feet. The coal seam being mined is at an elevation of <br />7,450 feet. Thus, the mine will be located over 40 feet above the <br />potentiometric level. There is no indication that the aquifer will <br />be affected by the King Coal Mine. <br />An exploratory core drill hole located in the SE/4 NW/4 of <br />Section 32 (See Map C-8) was driven from the surface through all <br />the overburden strata to the base of the currently mined upper <br />Menefee coal seam. No water was encountered. The log from this <br />howl accompanies this application. A well core hole was driven in <br />1978 on the mine bench near the water tank to a depth of forty <br />feet. The well was dry. The collar of the well is below the upper <br />Menefee seam outcrop. These two holes along with the two <br />previously mentioned active water wells indicate that the <br />overburden strata and strata at least to a depth of forty feet <br />below the upper Menefee coal seam contain no aquifers. <br />The best evidence is, however, of no disturbed aquifers or no <br />aquifers and no ground water seepage in the mine working <br />themselves. The workings extend though two-thirds of the federal <br />coal lease and all the workings except for the now abandoned areas <br />mentioned above are completely dry. Water must be pumped into the <br />mine from Wells # 1 and # 2 for dust and dire control. This is a <br />