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<br />(17.7 acre-feet per year) because of low recharge rates in the area and <br />low permeabilitiee of the aquifers. The City of Florence has historically <br />diverted most of the available streamflow of Newlin Creek upstream of the <br />mine site, resulting in a predominately dry stream channel for a distance <br />of nine miles to Newlin Creek's confluence with Hardecrabble Creek. From <br />the mine site to the confluence with Hardecrabble Creek, Newlin Creek is a <br />losing stream. It is likely that the small volume of water historically <br />discharged by the Red Arrow and Dirty Jack O'Lantern seams rarely. if <br />ever. historically significantly affected the flow of Aardacrabble Creek <br />below the confluence. <br />Carrent and Projected Water Osage <br />In 1985. the Southfield Hine produced approximately 464,000 tons of raw <br />coal. with a consumptive use of water of 39.5 acre-feet for that year. <br />Monthly consumptive use rates ranged from 2.9 acre-feet in the winter to <br />3.8 acre-feet in the summer. The principal consumptive use of water at <br />the mine site is duet control within the mine. Puture production of raw <br />coal at the mine is expected to reach 780.000 tone. At this production <br />rate. mining will continue until approximately 1996 and the annual <br />consumptive use of water ie estimated to be 58.8 acre-feet. with 4.6 <br />acre-feet per month consumptively used in the winter and 5.5 acre-feet per <br />month consumptively used in the summer. <br />Conclusion <br />Water avialable in the ground water system may be used at the mine site <br />with no significant effect on the flows available to water users o0 <br />Hardecrabble Creek or the Arkansas Basin. Futhermore, since the Corley <br />Mine well is a decreed well and under the State Engineer's Rules and <br />Regulations may pump 41.4 acre-feet per year. current usage of this well <br />at the mine is consistent with applicable rules and regulations. <br />- 3 - <br />