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' Alteroatiwea <br />Any other water usage alternatives such as attempting to store and release <br />' enough water at the mine site to ensure an amount of water equal to the <br />mine's consumptive use would reach Hardecrabble Creek would be wasteful <br />' and impractical. First. there is virtually no reasonable source of water <br />available near the mine site for reservoir storage. so ezchange with <br />' downstream water rights ie difficult. if not impossible. <br />Finally, even if water was available for storage at the mine site. the <br />' release of stored water to Newlin Creek in the small volumes necessary to <br />offset mine usage would be wasteful and impractical becauee it would <br />' rarely. if ever. reach the confluence with Hardecrabble Creek. <br />DBBCBIPlI01 OF PHY8ICAL SETTING <br />' The Southfield Mine permit and lease boundaries are show on Figure 2. <br />' The property ie located northeast of the Wet Mountain fault. straddling <br />the aais of the Chandler syncline. Important geologic features are shown <br />on Figure 3. The syncline generally plunges northwesterly in this area; <br />' its southwestern limb is steeply inclined near the Wet Mountain fault. but <br />its northeastern limb is much less inclined. Since the land surface <br />' elopes to the northeast. the subcrops or outcrops of the geologic unite <br />comprising the syncline are higher in elevation on the southwestern rim <br />' than on the northeastern rim. Geologic unite important to the <br />hydrogeology of the area are the Pierre Shale. Trinidad Sandstone. and <br />Vermejo and Raton Formations. <br />The mine lease property mostly lies is the Newlin Creek drainage. a <br />' tributary of Hardecrabble Creek. which in turn is tributary to the <br />Arkansas Biver. Magpie Creek and several other small drainages on [he <br />' mine lease property are tributary to Newlin Creek. Plate I shows the <br />locations. amounts and appropriation dates for water rights on Newlin <br />Creek and Hardecrabble Creek. Newlin Creek originates in the Wet <br />' - 4 - <br />