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<br />Page 3 <br />December 7, 1987 <br />M-87-171 Adequacy Responses <br />Steven Renner <br />Therefore, your suggestion of maintaining the stockpiling in Phase I <br />is yell taken and thoughtful, but Fountain Colony wishes to maintain the <br />plan as presented. Extraction, processing, and stockpiling will be <br />contained with the area of operations (25 acres, more or less). Of <br />course, when Phase I is being operated, the stockpiles would be there. <br />Once Phase II is entered and the operation in that phase has proceeded a <br />considerable distance, the stockpiling would move to the Phase II <br />extraction processing locations. So forth and so on until the operation <br />is completed. <br />We hope that you can see why we cannot present a clearly defined <br />location where processing and stockpiling would occur. The orientation <br />of the site combined with severe limitations in the available access <br />routes prohibit high detail planning without getting into a situation <br />where we are returning to the Board two or three times a year to alter <br />the plan. <br />QUESTION 3: The spring referenced in ESchibit G could not be located on <br />Exhibits C or F. Please address the spring location, the ownership of the <br />spring, and its adjudicated use, if any. <br />RESPONSE: Oops! The spring was on the original maps for this site. <br />When the maps were redrawn to a scale more appropriate for this permit <br />the location of the spring was not transferred. Enclosed is a copy of <br />that portion of Exhibit C where the spring is located. The spring has <br />been entered on this copy. Hopefully, this will be adequate to answer <br />your question as to its location rather than submitting all new maps <br />simply to show this one feature. <br />The spring is owned by the Fountain Colony Investment Co. and has been <br />used to the present and is continuing to be used for agricultural <br />purposes, totally for stock watering. The State Engineers Office has no <br />record of a filing on the spring. Consulting water engineers were hired <br />to investigate the spring's status. They found that it was probably <br />filed on about 1955, but the State Engineer's Office purged their files <br />of various filings. This probably rendered these old filings worthless <br />in their estimation. <br />Fountain Colony has offered this water to the City of Fountain at no cost <br />if they choose to proceed with an investigation or to attempt, as a <br />municipality, to adjudicate the use for their purposes. To the present, <br />Fountain has not shown much interest in the offer as they feel they have <br />enough water. <br />