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<br />• Page 3 <br />Dedember 14, 1998 <br />premature."e On September 24V1 BMRI provided its response plan and once again p@rsuaded "BMRI <br />wishes to determine a mutually acceptable resolution..."~ <br />BMRI's sampling of M-11R continued on October 2"0, 1998. TDS levels had increased <br />significantly again, 901 mg/L.a Two more samples were taken, that we are aware of, from M-11 R since <br />that time. Samples from October 5'" and 270i indicated that groundwater from M-11 R Iraas still beyond <br />permit conditions for TDS concentration, 876 and 930 mg/L respectively. <br />Table 1 below, portrays changes in TDS levels detected in monitoring well M-1I1 R since 1996.9 <br />There is clearly a pattern of increasing in M-11 R TDS concentrations in M-11 R since 1 X96. <br />Table 1 <br />Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) Monitoring Results <br />from Monitoring Well M-11 R. Battle Mtn. Gold <br />San Luis, Colorado <br />Permitted Level 613 <br />1996 May 550 <br />June 540 <br />July 660 <br />Aug. 510 <br />Sept 510 <br />Oct 492 <br />Dec. 517 <br />1997 Jan 507 <br />March 480 <br />April 478 <br />July 467 <br />Oct 201 <br />1998 Jan. 479 <br />April 492 <br />July 8 661 <br />Aug. 10 772 <br />Aug. 20 696 <br />Aug. 27 720 <br />Oct. 2 901 <br />Oct 5 876 <br />Oct. 27 930 <br />As can be seen by the data in Table 1, TDS levels in M-11R have not cam lied with permit <br />standards since at least July 80i. If TDS levels have not decreased below permit lev Is since October <br />2701, then by the December 16°1 hearing, the M-11 R TDS violation will be at least 161 ys of age. <br />s Bill Lyle, September 17, 1998, Letter to Mike Long. <br />Bill Lyle, September 24, 1998, Letter to Jim Dillie. <br />° Ron Zumwalt, October 20, 1998, Letter to Jim Dillie - Bi-weekly monitoring results. <br />9 Table I provides Water Quality Ivtonitoring Data, Inorganic Analvses Results, for M-1 IR. Data provided <br />to the Division by BMRI. Analyses provided by Sangre de Cristo Laboratory; and data obtained from the <br />TR-IS Response Plan, November 1998. <br /> <br />