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<br />' <br /> S rin s. <br />' Five springs in the mine site arez have been monitored. These springs <br /> are the No. 1 Strip Pit Discharge, the South Spring, East Spring, North <br /> Spring, and Lippard Spring II. The No. 1 Strip Pit Discharge is a NPDES <br /> monitoring point. hlonitoring of the East Spring was terminated in <br />' November, 1983. The re are a few other springs and local permanent "damp <br /> spots" in the area; however, their combined flow is less than ten gpm <br />' and, therefore, not significant. <br /> Water Quantity <br /> The 1983 measured discharges for the No. 1 Strip Pit are presented on <br />' figure 20 and the discharges for the rest of the springs are presented <br /> on Table 24. All of the discharges show a normal sezsonal variation in <br />' flow. The high flows occurring during the snow-melt runoff period and <br />low flows in the winter and early spring with some spring flows being so <br /> low that they become too low to measure, in part due to freezing. The <br /> 1983 flows from the springs did not show any significant variations from <br />' past flows. <br /> The average discharge from the No. 1 Strip Pit was 32 gpm. The average <br /> discharges from the other springs are shown on Table 24. Measurable <br />' flow was observed at the East Spring only one month in 1983 and at the <br /> North Spring only 5 months in 1983. 1n addition, while the average flow <br /> from the South Spring was 11 gpm, the spring discharge only exceeded 9 <br />' ypm in June and was t W low to measure for four months in 1983. <br /> plater Quality <br />' Summaries of the water quality data for the springs are presented on <br /> Table 25 to Table 32. No significant changes in the spring water <br /> quality are evident. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br />' -4- <br />