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124 <br />• 1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />• 13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br /> <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />state that we -- I personally do not believe that <br />a 100-yearj24-hour flood plan is sufficient because <br />that is statistical. We would want that leach pad <br />to be built for the maximum rainfall. <br />The 24-hour/hundred-year flood is <br />about three and a half inches of rain in a 24-hour <br />period. <br />We know rain can come here .as high as <br />twenty inches. That is maximum. If that occurs, <br />Battle Mountain will say, "We're sorry. The State <br />said that it was okay. We are within the <br />regulations." <br />And as Mr. Dodson said, "An}rthing <br />that runs down here, any water that runs dawn <br />here" -- and you can see how it opens up into <br />these plains, and here is some irrigated land -- <br />there will be more damage done to San Luis from the <br />water than from the cyanide, and that is true. <br />I am in the school three miles from <br />this point, and the school is in the flood plain. It <br />is in the blue area that Colorado Water Conservation <br />Board drew on their map. I will be walking around <br />with my rubber boots probably digging out of the mud <br />and so will people in the Town of San Luis. <br />The problem is that we'd better not <br />