1990-01-25_REVISION - M1988112 ‎(2)‎

• Permit No: M1988112
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 1/25/1990
• Doc Name: REPORTERS TRANSCRIPT OF PUBLIC HEARING TESTIMONTY OF PHILIP HOCKER
• Type & Sequence: AM1
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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1 essentially the same area we are talking about now,
2 it has been demonstrated the water table is at least
' 3 400 feet below the surface. That's quoting from a
4 staff memo of July 13.
5 But, in fact, Test Boring BH-12 in
6 September located groundwater at 140 feet, in other
7 words, about a third of the depth predicted by
8 Division staff and on which Division staff had made
9 its earlier recommendations to you.
10 It's also worth notin
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' 11 was drilled in September. It's difficult in these
12 areas I speak of -- I lived in Jackson Hole,
' 13 Wyoming, for 15 years -- that these groundwater
14 tables vary dramatically from season to season, and
15 I think before we can confidently say where the
16 groundwater is, we would really need at least a
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18 well point, since there is only one well point that
19 has been drilled into groundwater in the location.
20 The underlying soils are described in
21 the permit application as poorly consolidated and
' 22 highly permeable. That's pages D-24 and D-26 of the
23 application text.
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24 So my point is that there is no reliable
25 barrier in the natural situation between an unknown
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