1998-02-02_REPORT - C1984062

• Permit No: C1984062
• IBM Index Class Name: Report
• Doc Date: 2/2/1998
• Doc Name: 1997 AHR
• From: Colorado Yampa Coal Company
• To: DRMS
• Annual Report Year: 1997
• Permit Index Doc Type: HYDROLOGY REPORT
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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Colorado Yampa Coal Company
COLORADO YAMPA 29515 Routt County Road#27
COAL COMPANY Oak Creek, Colorado 80467
A Cyprus Amax Company [phone]
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January 28,1998
Janet Binns RECEIVE®
Environmental Protection Specialist FEB U 2 1998
Division of Minerals and Geology
1313 Sherman Street, Room 215
Division of Minerals&Geology
Denver, Colorado 80203
RE: PERMIT C-84-062; 1997 ANNUAL HYDROLOGIC REPORT
Dear Ms. Binns:
As per our conversation during your last inspection visit, I am herein requesting
an extension of the due date for the above referenced report.
For several years our Annual Hydrologic Reports has been compiled, with
considerable difficulty, from an ORACLE database maintained on a stand alone computer.
In mid 1997 Twentymile began upgrading our computer network, including installation of
the most recent version of ORACLE, along with several ORACLE productivity
applications. I believe that this will, ultimately, bring greater utility and efficiency to the
hydrolgic database we continue to build.
The compilation of Annual Hydrologic Reports has typically required the,
sometimes difficult, transfer of information from the old ORACLE database into a
spreadsheet application and then a graphing application. With the new ORACLE
productivity applications all of these fuctions can be accomplished from within the
ORACLE interface.
This transition has, unfortunately, not been without adversity. Our consultant
encountered many difficulties transferring our old data into the new system. Though very
nearly completed, the transfer of files to the new system is still in progress. These
difficulties have, however, allowed us to identify many duplicate records, consolidate
records for sites that have been identified by multiple names, and to correlate analysis
parameters that had multiple descriptions.
To further complicate our schedule here, we have experienced a 75% turnover of
the personnel in our Environmental Department within the last six months. Becoming
familiar with departmental records, learning the new ORACLE applications, and assuming
additional duties as departmental positions are being filled has, indeed, limited my
productivity since transferring into this department.
It is my desire to build and maintain the most comprehensive and useful hydrologic
database possible, and to efficiently compile a complete and factual report in a highly