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<br />Exhibit G - 1•~ater Resources <br />Mining is expected to have minimal impact on the prevailing hydrologic <br />balance. The site to be mined is high and dry. Other than a stockwater <br />pond located on the extreme east side of the site, no streams, springs, <br />surface water impoundments or ditches exist within the affected area or <br />immediately adjacent to the affected area. The existing stock pond noted <br />above, and illustrated on the Exhibit C map, is dry most of the year except <br />for during the spring following snowmelt when some water collects in the <br />basin. <br />The nearest major surface water body is the San Juan River which lies <br />about 1,800 feet west and about 320 feet below the permit area. <br />Surface Runoff and Sediment Control. <br />Runoff is limited to periods of snowmelt and summer storms. The site <br />lies a[ the top of a hill (drainage divide) on a broad convex-shaped slope. <br />Runoff from the affected area itself occurs as gentle overland flow <br />primarily toward the south and west. <br />Only minor surface control will be required to manage stormwater <br />runoff from the disturbed area and isolate such runoff on site. The major <br />control to be implemented will be one or more simple sediment catch basins. <br />One such basin currently exists on the southwest side of the site. If <br />necessary, an additional basin or basins will be constructed on the pit <br />floor as the operation advances. Simple lateral ditches and/or low earthen <br />berms will be field engineered as necessary within and around the perimeter <br />of the disturbed area to isolate runoff and maintain it on site. <br />-12- <br />