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• - • <br />- ._ <br />_- <br />h~ttleApplegate,lnc. <br />Consultants for Land, Mineral and Water Development <br />January 29, 1999 <br />Mr. Thomas Schreiner <br />Division of Minerals and Geology <br />1313 Sherman Street Room 215 <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br />RE: M&G Pit, Technical Revision No.4, Permit No. M-86-079 <br />Deaz Mr. Schreiner: <br />III IIIIIIIIIIIII III <br />999 <br />RECEIVED <br />FEB O 1 1999 <br />Or~ls:on of Minerals 8 Geology <br />The following information is in response to your adequacy concerns letter of December <br />23, 1998. This information is provided in the same order as your concerns. <br />Attached is a well location map showing one well installed since 1986, within 600 fee[ <br />of the north wash pond. This well was a replacement for one installed around 1940. <br />The new well, installed in 1990 has a depth of 40 feet, which is still located in the South <br />Platte alluvium. Also included are the case information on both the old well and the <br />replacement well. <br />The current permit still allows for a maximum sized lake on the property. This could be <br />up to 83 acres of exposed water surface. As the azea is now, the south pond and the <br />north wash pond aze physically connected most of the year when the water table is up. <br />There are approximately 71 acres total that will be lefr as open water. This is an <br />additional 10 acres from the original permitted water surface azea. <br />The landowner would be the applicant and holder of a substitute water supply plan to <br />cover the evaporative losses from the exposed water at the site. The source of <br />replacement water is shazes of the Fulton Ditch owned by the property owner. Currently <br />the Office of the State Engineer is reviewing information submitted for approval of the <br />substitute supply plan. Our understanding of the status is there is one outstanding issue <br />regazding the determination of the specific headgate on the Fulton Ditch that could be <br />used for making deliveries of the ditch shazes to the river. This issue was being <br />discussed today in a meeting with the ditch company and the property owner. The <br />substitute supply plan covers the potential evaporative losses during the mining <br />operation. Once final reclamation is completed, the plan will be converted to a <br />permanent augmentation plan to cover the evaporative losses from the lake. <br />11990 Grant Street, Suite 304 • Denver, Colorado 80233 • (303) 452-6611 • Fax (303) 452-2759 <br />