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I � <br /> Dust control is being handled by applications of water to the haul roads. There will be <br /> approximately 1100 feet of haul road that will be actively used. The road will be watered <br /> on the average of three times per day with an application rate of approximately 1/8 inch <br /> per watering. If an average of one hundred days of watering is done per year, 1.98 acre- <br /> feet of water would be required. This water will be fully consumed. <br /> The total annual consumptive use of water during the mining operation is as follows: <br /> DESCRIPTION CONSUMPTIVE USE <br /> Evaporation-Mining (0.7 acres) 1.8 acre-feet <br /> Water Retained in Material 3.4 acre-feet <br /> Dust Control 2.0 acre-feet <br /> TOTAL WATER CONSUMPTION 7.2 ACRE-FEET <br /> Project Water Rights <br /> Bucklen Equipment Company owns five (5) shares of the capital stock of the Greeley <br /> Irrigation Company. The Greeley Irrigation Company owns the Canal No. 3 Ditch (aka: <br /> Greeley No. 3 Ditch). Table G-1 lists the annual diversions for the ditch for a 10 year <br /> period. The average annual diversion through the Canal No. 3 Ditch headgate over the <br /> 10 year period is 16,934 acre-feet. <br /> There are a total of 520 shares of the capital stock in the ditch company and <br /> consequently the average annual pro-rated diversions for the 5 shares is equal to 162.8 <br /> acre-feet. Assuming a 10 percent ditch seepage loss and a 60 percent farming efficiency, <br /> the total consumptive use of the 5 shares is equal to 54 percent of the pro-rated <br /> diversions. This equates to 87.9 acre-feet of consumptive use water available for the <br /> augmentation of the evaporative losses on the site. <br /> A total of 22.6 acre-feet of the 87.9 acre-feet will be required for the augmentation of the <br /> existing Bucklen Equipment Company mine site, MLRD # M-82-131. Therefore, the <br /> remaining available consumptive use available for augmentation of the subject mine is <br /> 65.3 acre-feet. The 65.3 acre-feet will sufficiently cover the water losses requiring <br /> augmentation of 46.1 acre-feet when mining has been completed. These same water <br /> rights will also be used to augment the consumptive use of the mining operation of 7.2 <br /> acre-feet. <br /> G-4 <br />