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III IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 999 STATE OF COLORADO DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY Department of Natural Resources 1313 Sherman St., Room 215 Denver, CO 80?03 Phone: (3031 866-3567 FAX:1703)832-8106 Phone Log Memo DATE: September S, 1993 PHONE CALL MADE T0: Larry Mautz PHONE CALL MADE FROM: Christine Johnston RE: West Elk Mine, File No. C-80-007 \\\ OF Cp~O ~~s 41 • ~B ]6 ~ Roy Romer Governor Michael B. Long D rvaion Dlre[I Or I called Larry to request the information he has obtained from Gunnison County and the Water Commissioner from Division IV. He said he would send the information in the next couple days. He said that the water in Lone Pine Gulch is the adjudication right. The final collection point is G-26 or CR-12, the point that MCC has monitored in the past. He said Ralph Taylor began the adjudication process but was not completed until 1971 when someone else finished up the paper work. He mentioned that the law does not provide any qualifications. I said the first question we need to answer is whether the damage to the spring was caused by subsidence. He asked me if it was. I said I didn't know. I need to determine the location of the spring and then talk again with Jim Pendleton, I told him we have a number of maps that show the spring in different locations. I said regardless of whether the spring is adjudicated, MCC will monitor the spring. He said they have not built the road so how could they be monitoring? I said I talked to MCC, and they felt they didn't need a road because they would use the four-wheelers. Larry said in his opinion that the noise from the four-wheelers causes more stress to the deer and elk then an automobile. He said MCC would need an easement to run the four-wheelers on the ranch and he would not give it to them based on the reason stated above. CEJ/amm/8705F