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<br />Williams Creek AVFS, the most important characteristics of <br />' these AVFS are the integrity of the present irrigation <br />system and the ability to supply sufficient irrigation water <br />to farming activities in these valleys. Therefore, <br />' preservation of these AVFS' essential hydrologic functions <br />involves the preservation of the irrigation system itself, <br />' the supply of irrigation water, and a surface topography on <br />' the farmed fields which is conducive to irrigation <br />practices. <br />' Section IV of this report described the extent of the <br />probable hydrologic consequences associated with the Red <br />' Canyon Mines. As noted in that section, projected inflow to <br />the D and E Seam operations is expected to have <br />insignificant effects on streamflow in the area. (In <br />addition, it should be noted that a major part of the <br />irrigation water provided to farming activities in the Ward <br />' Creek and Williams Creek valleys has its source in another <br />drainage and is supplied to these valleys via the Granby <br />Ditch.) Given the mining plan for the Red Canyon Mines, it <br />' is expected that physical impacts to irrigation ditches and <br />to the topography of fields which are farmed will be <br />' insignificant due to the control of subsidence by means of <br />limited recovery mining. <br />' Since the Red Canyon Mines will have an insignificant <br />' effect on the essential hydrologic functions of the Ward <br /> <br /> 94 <br />' <br /> <br />