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July 21, 2003 <br />Page 2 <br />RE: Tatum/Basin <br />A concrete cap over a big deep shaft is simply not sufficient, especially where <br />subsidence and earth movement is now a proven fact in the azea. Any living thing that <br />falls into a six hundred (600) foot shaft will be killed. The only practical solutions to <br />correcting this threat of fatal results, delivery of methane gas to the surface, and <br />destruction of the water bearing formation means plugging the hole, casing off the water <br />bearing formations, and filling and. sealing this shaft. <br />The judgment against Basin is certainly connected to subsidence and the statutes <br />are replete with referrals to such damage. DMG has notice of the judgment which will be <br />filed in Denver as well as Las Animas County. <br />The water well made issue in the 1997 trial was on the north side of Highway 12 <br />on our property. The water well next to our foreman's house also stopped producing the <br />water necessary for his use and a city water tap was applied for and received. The cost to <br />replace the water well was approximately $10,000.00. Our hydrologist tells us that the <br />effects of a fourteen (14) foot diameter drill hole through water bearing formations would <br />be very damaging, especially so where the water flow goes out of the bottom of the shaft. <br />Please advise <br />Very truly yours, <br />.t~~~.-- <br />JT/ah <br />Enclosure <br />