REV94154

• Permit No: M1980244
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 7/11/1995
• Doc Name: GEOCHEMICAL REVIEW JUNE 5 1995 LETTER FROM CC&V TO B KEFFELEW REGARDING CONTACT TESTS CC&V CRESSON
• From: DMG
• To: BERHAN KEFFELEW
• Type & Sequence: TR14
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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N~'Tb\10'/ PO. Box 191, 2755 State Highway 67 5251 DTC Parkway, Suite 700, Englewood
Victor, Colorado 80880 Colorado 80111
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June 13, 1995
RECEIVED
SENT BY FACSIMILE AND EXPRESS MAIL
~~ Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company
A Joint Venture -Pikes Peak Mining Company, Manager
JUN 15 1995
Mr. Berhan Keffelew
Environmental Protection Specialist ~iVls,on ui wunerais 8 Geology
Colorado Department of Natural Resources
Division of Minerals and Geology
Office of Mined Land Reclamation
1313 Sherman Street, Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203 -
Reference: Response to Your Letter of June 8. 1995.
Dear Mr. Keffelew:
In response to your letter of June 8, 1995, received in this office on June 12, we appreciate your
acknowledgement of the appropriateness of terminating the humidity cell tests. With respect to
last pazt of your letter, you state that the overburden has the potential to violate applicable water
quality standards for surface water or jeopazdize existing or potential future uses of ground
water. Apparently your letter was prepared prior to our meeting of May 28, 1995 in which all
in attendance agreed that the concern of the Office about temporary modifications of surface
water criteria was not justified. Further, this just-now-received letter appears to have been
prepared prior to your receipt of our letter dated June 5, 1995 in which we responded to all
points made in your letter of May 30, 1995.
The use of ground-water in this Mining District is as recharge to surface water. If you have
examined the record, there aze no wells in the Cripple Creek Mining District. Therefore, and
as represented by spring flow arising in Arequa Gulch, and as evidenced by the ground-water
quality data that the Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company has and is collecting, the
objective is to protect existing quality in a manner that protects surface waters as they now exist.
The Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company has previously responded to all requests of
the Office of Mined Land Reclamation for information regarding the deposition and management
of overburden. The Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company has submitted a
management plan for that overburden on December 29, 1994 and has not received any
documentation from the Office of Mined Land Reclamation that disproves the humidity cell
results and the comparison thereof to ambient water quality. That December. 1994 submission
satisfied the applicable permit requirements. It was initially submitted as a Technical Revision
but, if my records are correct, was modified at your Office's request such that it may not be
considered a technical revision. If the Office is asking that we resubmit our December 29, 1994
management as a Technical Revision such that approvals may precede, we will be pleased to do