1990-11-15_REVISION - M1988112 (3)

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1` 217 '1 1 water court ceedin r k i th t p o gs wor s s you are a 2 limited to that consumptive use portion, so there 3 will be no net change in the flow regime of the 4 creek or the associated aquifer. 5 The second part of the augmentation plan •~ 6 involves the watering operation at the mine. Water 7 will have to be pumped from the local aquifer to 8 allow the minin to commence The water that is g . ' 9 pumped from the aquifer is considered to be 10 tributary water and, therefore, that -- any 11 depletions that that creates to Rito Seco will have 12 to be augmented. And the plan is to augment gnat 13 water with the consumptive use water from the 14 Columbian Ranch, so that in time and place, there 15 will be no depletion to Rito Seco. 16 That's -- the amount of depletion that 17 potentially could occur is a matter of monitoring 18 and understanding, once you start dewatering, of how 19 much that will be. But the augmentation plan will 20 put in place, an accounting procedure whereby it can 21 be evaluated, and if X amount of water is depleted 22 from Rito Seco, then X amount of water will be put 23 2 back into Rito Seco. So there are no net depletions 4 to the creek. 25 And Z should mention that if,-in fact, ,, AGREN, BLANDO 6 BILLINGS