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EXHIBIT G WATER INFORMATION Verv little water is expected to be needed at the site. The only possible uses for water imagined would be for drinking or for dust control. Am' drinking water wilt be hauled to the site via jug from potable water sources in the town of Westcliffe. It is anticipated that water maybe requued from time to time for dust control. >f mid when it is required it will be sprayed over the area using a watering truck and again obtained from city sources, probabh• from the Count' Shops area which is also in the town of Westcltffe. No wells will be drilled at the site for water use. The adjacent landfill has numerous observation wells and several of them are immediately adjacent to the subject area. No ground water will be encountered on the site as projected from information provided in the following referenced report far the adjacent landfill ("Revised Engineering Design and Operations Report For Proposed Custer Count}' Solid Waste Disposal FaciliR Custer County, Colorado", by Cmlder Associates Inc.. 2(10 Union Boulevard, Suite 500, Lakewood. Colorado 80228, dated October 20. 1993), see the following quotes: Page 2, Section 1.3, Paragraph ~: "Groundwater monitoring wells installed at the site did not encounter groundwater to depths of up to 76 ft., as discussed in Section 2.2.2.2 of this document Nearby domestic n•ells indicate the average depth to the uppermost aquifer at the site is 252 feel below the ground surface (ranging from 229 to 275 feet), although other site vicinip boreholes up to 380 feet have been dry." The gravel pit will incorporate surface water channels to control ninon to the facilit} and direct surface water mnoff away from the site. The channels will direct flow away from the site to low lying areas southwest of the pit work area. Currently the adjacent landfill area is partially drained onto the subject propem~. Channels from the landfill will be extended and used to drain off the pit area also. The average annual precipimtion at the sue is less than sixteen (16) inches.