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-! G- <br />• saturated to the northeast of the fio~e-near permit area. The zone of saturation <br />in the Cameo seam is probably recharged~at the point where the Cameo seam <br />subcrops below the Salt Creek alluvium, approximately 3 :wiles upstream of <br />the mine. very ZittIe recharge of water in coal seams and sandstones will <br />occur along the outcrops due to the Iow annual precipitation rate (8.9 inches) <br />and the steep slopes which favor runoff over infiltration. <br />The applicant has no monitoring well completed in strata overlying the under- <br />ground mine workings. This is because of the inaccessibility of the character- <br />istically steep terrain of the "Hook Cliffs" region to truck-rtaunted drill <br />rigs. Previous exploration drill holes in the area of the [9cClane Canyon !pine <br />have been dry to a depth in excess of 200 feet below the Cameo seam.. The <br />Cameo seam's associated roof and floor strata are not saturated in the area of <br />the mine. The mine is not a recharge area for these strata (see Figure 4.4-I <br />and Appendix C). The Munger Cannon !fine is Zocated updip of the McClave Canyon <br />,Kine, which suggests that the same situation wiZ1 be the case. <br />The rock strata within the permit and mine plan areas dip uniformly to the <br />northeast at 2 degrees. No faults Nave been identi.°ied in the pezmit and <br />mine plan areas of the lounger Canyon Mine, but two high angle faults form a <br />graben structure into which the adjacent McClave Canyon Mine is developed. <br />These faults may contribute to the equilibrium of ground water levels in the <br />bedrock aquifers in the region. One set of entries in the McClave Canyon June <br />encountered a fault on the south side of the graben structure. water flowed <br />from the fault into G7is mine. The fault eventually dewatered, and aI1 of the <br />. water produced was contained within the mine workings. <br />!finor unmapped faults may be encountered by the mine at a future time and may <br />produce mine inflows. In order to monitor the effect of the operation on <br />ground water resources and to assist in the prediction of hydrologic impacts <br />of future permit terms, the following stipulation is recuired: <br />stipulation fro. , <br />THE PERMITTEE ?!VST sUBF1IT TO THE REGULATORY AUTHORITY' dN ANNUAL <br />REPORT CHARACTERIZI[JG THE INFLOWS, DISCHARGES AND THE CONSUIIPTZON <br />OF WATER WITHIN 2XE JlINE. THIS REPORT IS TO INCLUDE A CUP.RE71T FlIJ[E <br />WORKINGS dfAP SHOWING THE LOCATION AND QUANTITY OF I[JFLCWS; A <br />TABLE KEYED TO THE MINE :NAP WHICH SHALL CONTAIN THE SOURCE (1.e., <br />FAULTS, FRACTURES, E"_'C.), QUANTITY, DURATION, AND QUALITY (i.e., pH, <br />::LECTBO-CONDUCTIVITY AND TEFIPERA TUREJ OF ALi NON-s EEP ZNFLDI.IS; A <br />TABLE CONTAINING RECORDS OF :+'dTER DISCHARGED .FR0J4 THE JIINE, CONSU[dED <br />L'J THE J4IJIE AND :'4PORTED FCR UsE 'JI'_"•''.IN TNF. 117.VE; A DZSCVSSI0J7 OF <br />THc :DATER HALANCE SJZT!fIN THE .IZ'!E; AND, A 2RO,TECTZO[f OF !i YDP.r`LOG IC <br />Z'!P.4CTS 'JF MZNI:VG IN 'IilE UPCOflI:JG Yu1R. <br />Examples of t.7e type of irr3ow .epor*_ reecested are on f_le at the Division <br />of:'_ce (sae 'n flow retorts for the U.S. Ste e1 Sor;~rset One and :Jesters __oce <br />Carbon's 'awY.'s Test Jiinei. <br />r <br />