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<br />-34- <br />Same of it will drain into the (INAUDIBLE) which is the 600 acre commons <br />pasture land that we also are concerned about. It's delicate water balance. <br />This is a map that was prepared by the Costilla County Soil Conservation <br />Office. It is the watershed boundary map. This is the watershed boundary all <br />along here. This is the town of San Luis, at the lower left and the big <br />(INAUDIBLE) is the 600 acre pasture, common lands here at the lower right as <br />well. As you can see, the entire Battle Mountain mine site is within the <br />watershed boundary. This is a Costilla County approximate flood plains map <br />that was prepared by the Colorado Water Conservation Board December of 1988, <br />and they have outlined the flood plain which is the area that could be <br />inundated in the case of a flood. And there, outlined in blue, you can see <br />the town of San Luis down here at the lower left. A portion of the town of <br />San Luis, including the school where I teach, is in the blue area which means <br />that it would be inundated in the case of a flood. And in the next slide, I <br />have superimposed the Battle Mountain Gold mine site onto this map of the <br />flood plain, and an extreme concern of ours now is that the 43-acre cyanide <br />• heap leach pad is right on top of the flood plain. Regardless oaf the design <br />and the statistics, if there is ever a spill it would have no choice but to <br />run down; it could not run upstream. This water will flow down. Not only <br />that, these are the waters that we charge the aquifer that we use as drinking <br />water. It is a serious concern of ours that this big cyanide facility is on <br />top of our drinking water supply. We would like to have Battle Mountain take <br />this section of the mine site and move it north about two miles. It would be <br />out of the watershed boundary, and it would also be out of the flood plain <br />that affects the citizens of San Luis. We have seen this slide pefore; this <br />is one that I did show last time. And this is the old heap leach pad -- the <br />Battle Mountain Gold site is right in this area, although they have purchased <br />property all the way down to the (INAUDIBLE) Creek. We would like to have the <br />heap leach pad, which is right here, moved into this other drainage where <br />there are no inhabitants. <br />These are the students that helped me take the pictures of these maps. <br />They would hold them up and I' would photograph them -- and then they wanted me <br />to take their picture. But, the Battle Mountain Gold site will loe back here. <br />