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Further, the application process itself specifically addresses the Boazd's interest in and responsibility to ensure that no harm comes to vested water rights. For example, C.M.R. 6.4.7 requires that applicants submit, as part of Exhibit G to their applications, a map locating all "tributary water courses, wells, springs, stock water ponds, reservoirs, and ditches on the affected land and on adjacent lands" that may be affected by the proposed mining operation. Further C.M.R. 3.1.6 expressly states that disturbances to the hydrologic balance shall be minimized both during and after mining and during reclamation, and C.M.R. 3.1.7 sets forth elaborate requirements for preserving ground water quality. The City has water rights in North Clear Creek immediately adjacent to the site as shown by Black Hawk's Exhibit 12. Quite simply, the Board has an independent duty to comply with and uphold the foregoing requirement, and all other requirements, set forth in the Construction Material Rules regazdless of whether an objector or a party raises concerns about such issues. Thus, even if the City had not raised the issues related to water rights and water quality, and regazdless of the time at which the City did raise these issues, the Boazd has an affirmative duty to investigate and confirm the potential impact on water rights and to deny the application or impose the necessary conditions on the application to ensure proper protection of those water rights. Nothing less is necessary in order for the Boazd to uphold its own rules and regulations and in order for the Board to satisfy the responsibilities imposed on it by the Colorado Land Reclamation Act for the Extraction of Construction Materials, C.R.S. § 34-32.5-101, et seg. II. Inadequate Compliance With the Mined Land Reclamation Statute and Regulations The Applicant asserts that it has provided adequate geotechnical analysis showing that 7