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.~ <br />June or July because the same occurrence <br />informed him we were not here in June or <br />had was a guard watching the Mill. <br />happened then. I <br />July and all we <br />Mr. Gole also informed me that he was in his back yard at <br />10:00pm on Oct. 24th and observed the creek as being dry <br />at that paint, he woke up at 3:OOam went outside to <br />attend to some personal business, at which time he <br />observed Cash Creek about to overflow its banks. <br />Given the volume of water that was being discharged and <br />the relative short distance I would estimate the valves to <br />have been open no earlier that 9:30pm the evening o£ <br />Oct.24th, and no later than 2:30am the morning of <br />Oct.25th. <br />After observing the water flow I instructed Jimmy Tatman <br />to walk the pipeline containing water coming from the Gash <br />Mine to the tailing pond. He reported back to me that a <br />valve had suffered some freeze damage and I assumed that <br />to be the source of the problem. I immediately called <br />Mark Steen and requested he discontinued pumping of the <br />Gash Mine, I then called Bob Mason and left a message on <br />his answering machine to contact me right away. About an <br />hour later I ran into Bob Mason in front of the <br />General Store and informed him that we had a problem that <br />we had traced down to a broken valve and Mark Steen was on <br />his way to shut the water off. At approximately 11:OOam <br />Mark Steen arrived at the Mill. He then pointed out to me <br />that. the valve from the tailing pond was open and that he <br />had only cracked it open. I then informed him that as soon <br />as he left the property I had Jimmy turn it off. He then <br />came to the conclusion that instead of Jimmy closing the <br />valve he opened it. <br />In numerous conversations I had with Mr. Steen regarding <br />this matter he has insisted that Slmmy opened the valve. <br />I infor~oed him that if Mark was not the one that opened <br />the valve then we have ghosts up here and Casper did it. <br />Under Mr. Steen's theory that Jimmy inadvertently opened <br />the valve at noon on Oct.24th, then 480,000 gallons of <br />water would have showed up in Mr. Coles back yard before <br />10: OOpm. <br />One of the exhibits found in the permit are the results <br />from the portal was Copper mg/1, 0.1700, Zinc <br />mg/1,37.4000,Lead mg/1,0.2400, Mercury mg/l,<0.0001, PH <br />solids-dissolved mg/1,1,590, suspended mg/l, <10. I am not <br />qualified to comment on the damage that occurred but I bet <br />it didn't help matters any. <br />#2. As per your suggestion I contacted Mr. Allen Berryman, <br />