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Preliminary Adequacy Issues 7 April 25, 2008 <br />AM-03, M-1988-112 <br />Pursuant to sections 34-32-109(6) and 34-32-115(4)(c)(I) of the Hard Rock Act, please ensure <br />that there will be compliance with the Costilla County land use code, and that the necessary <br />land use permit applications have been submitted. <br />Adequacy Issues Specific to Rule 6.4.19 <br />Significant acreage is being added to the permit area through the incorporation of the pipeline <br />corridor and irrigation fields. Please update Exhibit S to address structures within the new <br />permitted acreage at Salazar Ranch and within 200 feet of the new permit boundaries. <br />Adequacy Issues Specific to Rule 6.4.20 <br />Pursuant to Rule 6.4.20(3), please identify the environmental protection measures required by <br />WQCD, HMWMD, or other agencies, required for long-term permitting of the land application, <br />pipeline, and impoundment pit activities. Please ensure that the construction of the pipeline and <br />impoundment pit will comply with the standards required by the HMWMD. <br />Pursuant to Rule 6.4.20(8)(a), please locate on a map, all tributary water courses, wells, <br />springs, stock water ponds, reservoirs and ditches, on the affected land and on adjacent lands <br />within two miles of the proposed affected lands for Salazar Ranch and the pipeline corridor. <br />Please ensure that the Salazar Ditch, Espinoza Ditch, Acequia Chiquita, San Luis People's <br />Ditch, Montez Ditch; Allen Ditch and the San Acacio Ditch are described and accurately <br />portrayed . <br />Pursuant to Rule 6.4.20(8)(b), please identify all known aquifers and related subsurface water <br />bearing fracture systems within .two miles of the Salazar Ranch and pipeline corridor. Please <br />provide the general direction and rate of flow of ground water in these aquifers and fracture <br />systems. <br />Pursuant to Rule 6.4.20(9)(a), please indicate the existing and reasonably potential future <br />ground water uses on and within two miles down-gradient of the affected lands. <br />Pursuant to Rule 6.4.20(10)(b), please submit copy of a Storm Water Management Plan for the <br />land application site, if required by the WQCD. <br />Please address the potential for soils contamination at the Salazar Ranch over time from <br />repeated applications of the West Pit water. Please ensure that the evaluations required under <br />Rule 6.4.20(14), address all contaminants present in the West Pit water and applied to the soils <br />of Salazar Ranch for the life of the proposed irrigation activity. Pursuant to Rule 6.4.20(17), <br />please ensure that the evaluations required under Rule 6.4.20(14) demonstrate that the <br />acceptable plant growth medium of Salazar Ranch will be preserved. <br />Conclusion <br />Please respond to the adequacy issues identified in this letter and in the two attached staff <br />memorandums from David Bird and Allen Sorenson. If additional time is required to respond to <br />