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Objection to BMRI's AM-03 <br />Page 11 of 23 <br />February 22, 2008 <br />By decree entered on September 23, 1957 in Civil Action No. 1390, four <br />additional water rights are entitled to divert through the Salazar Ditch headgate. The <br />four ditches, which are separately owned, are the Acequia Chiquita Ditch, the Rito Seco <br />Feeder of the San Luis People's Ditch, the Montez Ditch, and the Espinoza Ditch. The <br />Shalom Ranch not only affords these four ditches the ability to divert their waters <br />through its headgate, but the ranch also provides a distribution mechanism within the <br />ranch boundaries for each ditch to take their entitlement. The Salazar Ditch Reservoirs <br />are part of the means for doing so. (SWSP Application, Exhibit D, pp. 6-7) <br />AM-03 does not address the Issue of how the Salazar Ditch surface waters, <br />commingling with the waters of these four independent ditches, will be impacted by the <br />waste water imported into the ranch for land application. High winds, particularly during <br />the spring, could move some waters under the sprinklers off the targeted areas which <br />presumably could impact waters in the reservoirs or canals. In turn, this could <br />negatively impact the water quality in those ditches as well as the water quality in the <br />Rito Seca Itself. BMRI. fails to address these concerns in AM-03. <br />B. BMRI'S Land and Dispemal Proposal at the Salazar Ranch is Flawed In <br />Principle <br />In AM-03, BMRI contends that fluoride is not a concern for purposes of its <br />analysis. However, it then admits that the town of San Luis is in its targeted path based <br />upon the ground water flows in the vicinity. <br />Fluoride concentrations In ground water at the Ranch are affected by rate and <br />direction of ground water flow, along with the location and amount of fluoride entering <br />the aquifer. (p. 36) Ground water flow is to the southwest In the vicinity of the irrigation <br />pivots. (p. 37). The nearest location of current ground water use is to the south at the <br />town of San Luis. (p. 37) <br />The results of the solute ground water transport model indicate a probable <br />increase in ground water fluoride concentration of approximately 0.46 mg/L. in the <br />vicinity of SLM-2. (p. 37) Ambient fluoride concentrations in ground water at the Salazar <br />Ranch are approximately .5 mg/L. which results in a total projected concentration of .96