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COLORADO DEPART`SENT OF HEALTH <br />• Water Quality Control Division <br />' 4210 East 11th Avenue <br />Denver, Colorado 80220 <br />• RATIOlIALE <br />WEST ELK COAL COMPANY (WECC) <br />MT. GUNNISON N0. 1 MINE <br />PERMIT NUMBER: CO-0038776 <br />GUNNISON COUNTY <br />TYPE OF FACILITY: Industrial and Domestic - New <br />SIC NO.: 1211 (Coal Mine) and 4952 (Domestic WWTP) <br />LOCATION: Southeast 1/4 of Section 9, Township 13 <br />South, Range 90 West, approximately 1 <br />mile east of Somerset, Colorado. <br />LOCAL CONTACT: Rocky Bowman <br />West Elk Coal Co. <br />P. 0. Box 490 <br />Paonia, CO 81428 <br />(303)+929-5015 <br />LEGAL CONTACT: Mr. Curtis W. Foster, Manager <br />West Elk Coal Company <br />P.O. Box 591 <br />SomerseC, CO 81434 <br />(303)+929-5015 <br />• RECEIVING WATER: North Fork of the Gunnison River <br />(Segment 2) <br />CLASS: B1 (present); proposed: class 1 <br />recreation, class 1 cold eater aquatic <br />life, eater supply, agriculture <br />A eater quality limited segment <br />Q7-10~ North Fork of the Gunnison River near <br />Somerset - 33.0 cfs <br />DESIGN FLOW: The design floes for the six industrial <br />facilitp discharge points are shown in <br />Table 1 Discharge points 001, 002, <br />003, 004, 005 and 008 are runoff <br />' sedimentation ponds. 006 is a fresh <br />water pond which has two sources of <br />• water; a raw eater gallery from the <br />North Fork of the Gunnison River and <br />from sedimentation pond number one, <br />(discharge paints 001 and 002). Because <br />ehe fresh water pond can receive water <br />from the sedimentation pond, limitations <br />for sediment pond discharge points will <br />also apply to this discharge point. <br />• Corrected 7/9/84 <br />