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<br />Table 9: SUPiMAR'! OF FISH CREE!C MAY, 1985, SP2I!IG .4ND SE`P SURVEY (MAY, 1985) <br />SOURCE No. of Springs Percent of Volume of Percent of <br /> Total Springs Discharge Total Flow <br /> (%) (gPm) (%) <br />Twentymile Sandstone 7 31.8 81 25.5 <br />Lewis Shale 6 27.3 139 43.7 <br />Coal Seam 1 4.5 14 4.4 <br />Reclaimed Areas of 2 9.0 27 8.4 <br />Mine 2 <br />Other (Unidentified) 6 27.3 59-59 17.9 <br />Discharge of ground water occurs at multiple sites within and adjacent to the <br />Eckman Park Complex permit boundary. Twentymile Coal Company located springs <br />and seeps adjacent to r'ish Creek and identified their source in May, 1986 <br />(Table 60 and Map 36 of the Foidel Creek Life-of-Mine permit application). <br />Twenty-two seeps were recorded, of which most were derived from the Twentymile <br />Sandstone. The largest icl~~ras were recorded from the Lewis Shale. The flows <br />which were observed in May represented 1,3% of the surface water flow observed <br />at site 1002 on Fish Creek during that period (Table 8). <br />There is no doubt that spoils springs will come to predominate spring flow in <br />areas where surface mining has occurred. One 1300 acre Klock in Eckman Park <br />has two large springs which each have flows ranging from 50 gpm to 1200 gpm. <br />A 1450 acre area in western Eckman Park has at least nine large springs with <br />flows ranging from less than 1 gpm to 250 gpm. The applicant has documented <br />the locations of spoils springs on Maps 28-1 through 28-9. <br />Water extracted from the Yampa River downstream from its confluence with Trout <br />Creek is used for agricultural, industrial, municipal, domestic and stock <br />purposes. Irrigation ditches, within the upper Trout Creek drainage, divert <br />water from Fish, Middle, and Trout Creeks to facilitate farming of forage <br />crops, primarily grass hay and alfalfa. The ditches are utilized primarily <br />during the growing season. <br />',Dater rights records from the State Engineer's Office were reviewed to <br />determine current surface water usage in the area. These records (1984) <br />indicate that the primary use for water within the Trout Creek drainage basin <br />downstream from permitted mine areas is for irrigation. There are several <br />domestic water users along the Fish Creek drainage, but these are all upstream <br />from any permit areas. There are no surface water rights along the reach of <br />Middle Creek downstream from its confluence with Foidel Creek. Water use <br />along Trout Creek is also principally agricultural. <br />36 <br />