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. ~~~ <br />'gRAl1~JIIIIC7WN <br />^ BIG SNOWPACK -Colora- <br />• ,do's statewide snowpack level <br />vas at 306 percent of average <br />eptering.June. Watercoglent <br />jnctease8 at some points in the <br />past week. <br />• These are among the highest <br />• ' Tevels on record for this late in <br />the year. The biggest reason is <br />' snow not melting because of <br />• cool temperatures. <br />- - Figures wllected at monilor- <br />_ _ ing points Wednesday showed <br />the Gunnison River watershed <br />at the highest level - 470 per- <br />cent of the average for the <br />date, said Lenny Lang of the <br />,Natural Resource and Cooler- <br />- 4ation Service. The South <br />Platte was at 368 percent; Col- <br />orado, 263 percent; Laramie <br />and North Platte, 219 percent; <br />Yampa and White River, t26 <br />percent; Arkansas River, 323 <br />nt; Upper Rio Grande, <br />- 53 percent; and San Miguel, <br />- .+;2 peceet. <br />_ erevnewvf~ <br />- -~ SERVICES PENDING - A <br />:memorial service for Buffy <br />-Rice Donohue, who disap- <br />geared on Nov. 21,1993, at the <br />. age of 18, will be held as soon <br />as authorities return her re- <br />- trains to her family. <br />.~ Donohue's body was discov- <br />-: ~ ered last week in a rural subdi• <br />' • -Ttision south of Norwood. No <br />spe has been arrested in the <br />.lase, but a former Miami po- <br />t :'J;ce detective who once lived in <br />- -Montrose is a suspect. <br />DL4lRAp0 snl;N6os <br />SOLDIERS RESCUED - <br />ve Fort Carson soldiers who <br />>re stranded on Pikes Peak <br />ring a training exercise were <br />led oft' by helicopter yester- <br />-; Search units were called af- <br />rsome members of the 1st <br />ttatioe of the 12th Infantry . <br />ded to reach the summit by <br />ark Wednesday. A helicopter <br />Landed at 13,000 feet, about 500 <br />Teel below the stranded group. <br />4'~e search team brought sleep- <br />jeg bags and hot food, then car- <br />~jed the soldiers to safety. <br />Bone of the five appeared to <br />Lave suffered serious injuries. <br />• -r _ .. .. <br />By ~Ulck Q'DriecoN <br />SWf,WaYr <br />.r Ce~lfve breetpieg <br />of b ackdooled ferrets this year roay <br />pro uce enough of the rare prairie <br />weasels for releases in three states <br />this faB, wildlife biologists were told <br />yestf~+day. <br />B¢-pwlie~uagaastimate. as, many- <br />as 200 ferret kits will have been born <br />in this spring's whelping season, said <br />Tom Thorne, a Wyoming Game and <br />Fish Department veterinarian who <br />oversees captive-breeding e[forls. <br />Thorne's "cautiously optimistic" <br />Slip nets <br />$500 f. ire <br />Mine firm missed <br />mandatory report <br />.By Kit Miniclier <br />Denver Post Steff Wdter <br />Battle Mountain Resources, which <br />operates an open-pit gold mine about <br />9 miles northeast of San Luis in <br />southern Colorado, has been fined by <br />the Colorado Mined Land Reclama- <br />tion Board for failing to make man- <br />datory monitoring reports. <br />The company uses cyanide-laced <br />water to help extract gold from <br />crushed ore. It failed to submit re- <br />quired monitoring reports for surface <br />stations and monitoring wells from <br />Dec. 1, 1993, through June 19, 1994. <br />The board imposed a minimum <br />;500 fine and commended the compa- <br />ny for disclosing its own failure to re- <br />port to the board. It also required <br />that the company submit evidence by <br />June 15 of changes in internal proce- <br />dures that will protect against a re- <br />currence of the problem. <br />"It was an administrative failure <br />which had nothing to do with exces- <br />sive cyaeidelevels; 'said mine opera- <br />lions manager Dan Robertson. <br />Jim Dillie, an environmental spe- <br />cialist with the Colorado Division of <br />Minerals and Geology, agreed with <br />Robertson. <br />Battle Mountain Gold, as the com- <br />pany is comtnoNy called, was cited <br />three years ago for illegally high lev- <br />els of cyanide in a 17-million gallon <br />tailings pond. <br />Battle Mountain Gold has volun- <br />tarily increased its reclamation bond <br />from;3.3 million to;6.1 million, Dil- <br />lie said. "1 had told the company I <br />was going to re-evaluate its bond. <br />They knew it was going up, so they <br />asked iF they could submit an interim <br />inch atad we acoaRted it." <br />- ~ r. <br />Bey. <br />the <br />'tee. <br />bla <br />and <br />hose <br />Se- <br />.too. <br />kih <br />120 <br />avs <br />Mo• <br />A~ <br />aria <br />r <br />L <br />t <br />999 <br />