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Item No. 5 VT4ision of Water Resources CommenTs <br />(I) The maximum depth of the pit will be thirty feet. The well at the <br />industrial site on the North has a pump setting of about 95 feet. The main <br />well at the ranch home near the Northwest corner of the pit area has a pump <br />set at about 100 feet. The other two wells are in excess of 30 feet deep - <br />exact data is not available. <br />As the mining operation progresses to the North the ground water <br />will be monitored and records kept. This will be done at six month intervals <br />or less, as necessary, There is a well on the 5 acre office and plant tract <br />at the North end of the pit area. This well is the most practical point of <br />drawdown measurement as it is closer than the other wells. <br />The dewatering will have very little effect on the ground water level <br />because, (a.) only a small area will be dewatered at one time, (b.) adjacent <br />previously mined area will be kept full which will tend to maintain a high <br />water table, and (c.) observation of water levels in adjacent excavated areas - <br />full and empty -with an intervening berm indicate slow horizontal water movement <br />and suggest a very short drawdown curve. <br />(2) No water is used for washing gravel or other processing. The spray <br />bars for dust control are supplied by the well for which a permit has been obtained. <br />(3) Assuming that the evaporation loss is as suggested, the ditch right owned by <br />the applicant is still adequate to cover losses. <br />Page 9 <br />