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iscmo to T•:vin Pines from L. G. Pihite, Dec. 6, 198j <br />Page 2 <br />• Mr. Kessler wa employed at Caldirola No. 2 from 1959 to 1962 as <br />the hoist oper or. He was also responsible for rumping the sump <br />at the bottom the slope, Mr. Kessler stated that almost all of <br />the water in tt mine came from a spring in the slope above the <br />sump which was .slope from a roll in the coal. He felt the <br />difference in _evation through the roll •aras about six (6) feet. <br />VJhila employed ~t the mine, he pumped the upper sump every day, <br />He stated that t'ie vrater in the losses portion of the mine was only <br />Dumped once every one to tiro vreeks. <br />Statement from Joe Caldirola. 70C E. Main Street, rlorence. C0: <br />Mr. Caldirola developed Caldirola P]o. 2 Mine. He stated that a <br />spring eras encountered vrhile driving the rock slope into the mine, <br />causing considerable trouble. He said they tiad to drive a sump <br />at the end of the slope to alleviate the problem, and control the <br />water. Fie confirmed the presence of a roll in the coal below the <br />sump and that the loner portion of the mine made very little vrater. <br />He stated that the spring in the slope :vas the source of water for <br />the Coal Creek t'Jell. <br />b) In a study of the Coal Creek crater supply by United '1Jestern <br />Engineers in 1974, the following eras stated: <br />". Three members of the Tovrn Board were in the slope <br />• in 1969 or 1970 and reported it dry except in the westerly <br />third. There are apparently tyro main pockets of vrater in <br />the mine, one near the air shaft and one near the westerly <br />end of the slope. A well was surveyed to be drilled near <br />the west end, but instead eras drilled as shovm on Plate 3 <br />near the middle of the slope in I~iarch 1970. This yell hit <br />'gob' or pile of rock on the edge of ttie slope, extracted <br />electrical blasting vrire, but the :Nell eras dry," <br />Additional information on the mine and vrater system is <br />included in the resort, including vrater tests on the upper <br />pool of water which shop:•s the water to be of "remarkably <br />high quali~y." <br />c) The town of Coal Creek installed a pumr in the mine air <br />shaft in 1969. Caving in the shaft resulted in the drilling <br />of a erell into the upper portion of the mine in August 1975. <br />This 'a ell eras permitted as a replacement well in June 1975, <br />Permit P?o. 019890-F, In 1979 additional wells were drilled <br />near the bottom of the slope resulting in the present yell <br />location in the upper mine sump. Electric power eras dis- <br />connected at the pump meter in January 198?. P1o useage had <br />been recorded for tyro years prior to that time, <br />• <br />