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A landslide is located in this same area which has been gradually slumping for the last several years. <br />The slide, just to the west of the Bear No. 3 Mine disturbed azea, has exposed a portion of the C- <br />seam coal bed and a couple of steel beams, presumably, of the westernmost C-seam portal of the <br />abandoned Edwazds Mine. The Division will continue to monitor this situation too. <br />There is also a spring in this area that is coming from a point on the hillside neaz one of the <br />backfilled Edwazds Mine B-seam portals. The origin of this spring water is not known but the water <br />temperature as it comes out of the hillside is in the mid to upper 80 degree Fahrenheit range. These <br />high temperatures aze very unusual for ground water. Beaz Coal Company is passing the spring water <br />through a spring water treatment pond and into the North Fork of the Gunnison River. The spring <br />water is dark orange in color but has been found to be incompliance with water quality standazds. <br />The Division will continue to monitor this situation as well. <br />The operation and reclamation plan presented in the original permit application included requests for <br />vaziances from approximate original contour (steep slope mining), mining within 300 feet of a <br />residence, and disturbance within 100 feet of a perennial stream. The Division approved these <br />variances, as described in Sections A and B of this Findings document. Appropriate mitigation or <br />alternative plans, and waivers have been incorporated into the permit application. <br />12 <br />