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' strata isolate this body of water from the perched shallow <br />aquifers that are the sources to springs TP-S2 and TP-S3. <br />Again, data on wells penetrating aquifers below the Brookside <br />coal bed are scant. Possibly, the mine shaft well at Caldirola <br />No. 2 Hine penetrates the Vermejo Formation down to a depth below <br />the Brookside seam even though this is not known for sure from <br />the records available (table 2.04.6-1). In the drawing of the <br />General Mine Area this well is marked as 90F. This well taps on <br />the reservoir of ground water accumulated in an abandoned <br />underground mine that reached a depth of 270 feet below the <br />surface. It is not clear exactly where the saturated interval <br />is, but the mine is described as having been "very wet and 2 <br />pumps running a two inch line full, 2 hours a day were required <br />to keep the working levels drained" (United Western Engineers, <br />1974). This report on water supply for the town of Coal Creek <br />further describes the Caldirola No. 2 Mine and the water stored <br />. in it' as follows: <br />"The mine sap has been carefully <br />consulted, as well as the records of 60 core <br />drills taken in the NW 1/4 NW 1/4 of Section <br />12 by the A. P. Green Fire Brick Company of <br />Pueblo. The mine floor slopes northwesterly <br />at about 20 (4%). The water level at the pump <br />would indicate that the mine is entirely full <br />and under 90 feet of head at the westerly end. <br />However 3 members of the Town board were in <br />the slope in 1969 or 1970 and reported it dry <br />except in the westerly third. There are <br />apparently two main pockets of water in the <br />mine, one near the air shaft and one near the <br />westerly end of the slope. A well was <br />surveyed to be drilled near the west end, but <br />instead was drilled as shown on plate 3 near <br />the middle of the slope in March of 1970. <br />This well hit the 'gob', or pile of rock on <br />the edge of the slope, extracted electrical <br />blasting wire but the well was dry. <br />The slopes of the mine were worked to 6 <br />feet in depth as were the two north-south <br />entries. The workways average about four feet <br />vertically. Three significant springs were <br />JFSA-35