PERMFILE136916

• Permit No: C1981034
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 7/1/1998
• Doc Name: pg 34 to 77
• Section_Exhibit Name: SECTION 2.04 Environmental Resources
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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2.04.7 (1) (b) I
and discharge characteristics of aquifers.
Refer to the General Description of Hydrology and Geology, Section.
2.04.5, and Section 2.04.7(1)(a).
(2) Surface tVater Information.
(a)(b) Surface water information including the name of the watershed,
the location of all surface water bodies.
The name of the watershed which receives the water discharge from
the permit area is the Tongue Creek Watershed.
Surface water bodies in or adjacent to the permit area are the Ward
creek to the northeast, Carbon Ditch (an agricultural irrigation
system) to the southeast, Williams Creek, Cottonwood Creek, Rowell
Draw, and various stockponds. Refer to the Surface Drainage Pattern
Map, 2.04.7(2)(a)(b)-1, for the locations of these drainage systems
and stockponds. Table 2.04.7(2)(a)(b)-1 is information provided by
the Colorado State Government, Irrigation Division No.4 on flow rates
of the above named creeks. Due to the numerous irrigation diversions
on the creeks, the flow rates on Table 2.04.7(2)(a)(h)-1 are repre-
sentative for the area indicated on the Surface Drainage Pattern Map,
2.04.7(2)(a)(b)-1. Ditch diversions for Ward Creek and Williams Creek
are shown on Drawing 2.04.5-1.
Grand Mesa Coal Company is currently
settle solids firom water pumped from
runoff of precipati.on events. Plans
o new sediR:ent:ation pond in the draw
pond. Refer to Section 2.05.3 (4),
sedimentation pond.
using a sediment pond to
the mine and inflow from
are being made to construct.
south of the present sedimentation
Eor details on the proposed
The water diverted as undisturbed and the water released from the ,
sedimentation pond will continue down the natural drainage 'channel.
The drainage from this small box canyon drains directly into an
REVISED May 8, 1981
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