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DMG Further Response to Petition at p. 2-3. In addition, Haldorson's Supplement contains more new information not available at the initial hearing before this Board in October 2003. This additional new information includes the following: • Additional wells drilled at the site indicate that grave] thickness in Phases I and II range from 57 to 64 feet, across the phase areas, supporting the likeliness that groundwater levels in these areas area relatively deep and not near the ground surface; • Current groundwater data for wells in the area show groundwater levels at 0 to 1 foot above the bottom of the wells; • Further study of the geology of the site revealed that a shale ridge exists to the south and west of the permit area trending in a southeast/northwest direction, therefore isolating the permit area from other recharge areas of the mesa. This ridge appears to form an isolated area of 153 acres. Irrigation, precipitation, and groundwater outside of this isolated area appears not to drain into the groundwater at the site; • Percolation tests and sieve analyses of material at the site indicate rapid permeability and little resistance to water flow, therefore minimizing its ability to restrict groundwater flow and to cause groundwater levels to rise near the ground surface; • Letters from operators at neighboring operations confirm that groundwater is not encountered at these sites. DMG Further Response at p.3. As noted above, some of the new information submitted by Halderson in its Supplement is groundwater data that was collected in January of 2004. This new information could not have been presented to the Board in its October 2003 hearing because the monitoring data was not collected until over 2 months after the October 2003 hearing. See Supplement at p.2 and Appendix A of Supplement. Other new data that has been collected since the October 2003 Board meeting by Haldorson andpresented in either its Supplement and its appendices thereto is percolation