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169 <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 />22 <br />23 <br />• 24 <br />25 <br />there are many, many, many, many other examples of <br />where mining companies have violated Federaal <br />discharge permits to allow higher levels of <br />contaminants into streams that were, prior to those <br />companies taking on those sites, pristine clrinking <br />water sources or providing other domestic uses. <br />So you have to look at the chance that <br />something is going to happen and just from normal <br />routine operations, mining companies in general, <br />again according to the EPA, do constitute major <br />threats to groundwater. <br />Now, you have an even more serious <br />situation here, as many of your own local leaders <br />have talked about, and that is that you have highly <br />permeable soils with very shallow groundwater <br />underneath them that supply the entire area for your <br />domestic use and your irrigation use and other <br />things. <br />And back in the '70s when I was <br />working with low income senior citizens around the <br />State we looked at the San Luis area as the model <br />for people who are attempting, with great success, <br />to become self-reliant, to not have to rely upon <br />very expensive energy sources, to not have 'to <br />develop very expensive water sources. <br />