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1991. This decline could be the result of greater recharge during <br />• this period relative to the previous few years. <br />Water levels have stabilized or recovered slightly following a <br />decline during the low precipitation in years 1988 through 1990. <br />The water levels show seasonal variability with levels falling <br />during the late summer and rising during the winter and spring. <br />Seasonal fluctuations appear highest in the higher snowfall years <br />such as 1987 and 1991. Seasonal fluctuations vary from i to 6 feet <br />in all wells. Larger declines noted in well SM-1 in 1990 are <br />apparently the result of pumping from the near by well field. Well <br />field influences are not apparent in any of the other monitoring <br />wells. No impacts related to mining activity were observed other <br />• than the occasional seasonal drawdown in well SM-1 due to pumping <br />from the nearby Stevens Gulch well field. <br />SURFACE WATER <br />Fourteen ponds, thirteen springs, and one surface water station are <br />monitored in Steven's Gulch. Summaries and plots of the data are <br />presented for the one surface water station, five ponds, and seven <br />springs. Plots of the flow rate and conductivity data are <br />presented in Figures 9 through 21. A summary of the flow rate date <br />for station SW-5 is presented in Table 16. Summaries of the water <br />quality data are presented in Tables 17 through 42. These tables <br />for stations P-7-11, P-19-1 and SP-13-5 are blank because these <br />. sites did not flow in 1991. Also, water quality data for Spring <br /> and Pond SP-19 and SP-24 and Ponds P-7-2 and P-12-2 are provided in <br />4 <br />