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MASSEY SEMENOFF & STERN, P.C. <br />Mr. Doug George <br />May 5, 2000 <br />Page 2 <br />BMRI has reviewed your March 3 letter carefully from a technical perspective• and would <br />offer the following comments and conclusions. <br />As indicated above, your letter makes reference to an existing irrigation well on <br />the Shalom Ranch. It is unclear which irrigation well you aze referencing, ,ts there aze <br />two irrigation wells permitted by the State Engineer's Office (SEO) at the Sha om Ranch. <br />According to records at the SEO, there are currently two permitted irrigation wells at the <br />Shalom Ranch. Permit Nos. 21590-F-R and 19564-RF. Well Permit No. 215')0-F-R was <br />completed on July 21, 1996, and replaced a well that was originally put into production <br />on December 31, 1937. Well Permit No. 19564-RF is a replacement well completed on <br />April 25, 1977. It replaced a well that was completed only two years earlier, on <br />September 12, 1975, and was appazently re-drilled to accommodate pumping to a center <br />pivot irrigation system. The welt completed on September 12, 1975 vas also a <br />replacement for the original Well Permit No. 19564-F, which was put into production in <br />December of 1945. Therefore, according to these records, both of the irri8ation wells <br />currently in use at the Shalom Ranch have previously been replaced. <br />Both of the current irrigation production wells have similar completions. Well No. <br />21590-F-R has a total depth of 300 feet, with 16-inch blanl: steel casing from ground <br />surface to 155 feet and perforated casing from I55 feet to the bottom of the well. Well <br />No. 19564-RF is 250 feet deep, completed with 16-inch blank steel casing f•om ground <br />surface to 124 feet and 16-inch perforated steel casing from 124 feet to 244 feet, with the <br />remainder of the well being open hole. Due to the similar completions of the~.e wells and <br />the confusing descriptions of the locations of the wells, it is difficult to di~cem which <br />well is the one being described in your letter as you do not identify the well by permit <br />number. <br />According to your March 3 letter, the irrigation well in question has produced 800 <br />gallons per minute (gpm) for many years, and then suddenly, in August 19!19, the well <br />lost 50 percent of its production (to 400 gpm). You assert that your client, the owner of <br />the Shalom Ranch, "investigated the problem thoroughly by the involvement of well <br />experts and others," and has concluded that there has been "an unusua; and rapid <br />corrosion of the metal parts involved in the well's operation. The corrosi~~n included <br />large white "boils" which only appeared on the casing below the water table: and which <br />resulted in clogging of 90% of the pipe perforations." <br />While your letter included a number of specific conclusions or assertions <br />regazding the potential cause of the problems in your client's well, you have provided no <br />