2010-03-01_REVISION - C1981008 (2)

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that have been done by the mine CAN NO LONGER USE THE TYPE OF IRRIGATION THAT THEY WERE CAPABLE OF USING PRIOR TO MINING. None of the properties can ever be irrigated with gated pipe or flood irrigation, or any FURROWS. The land is not put back to ever again handle this type of irrigation. I'm really surprised at Dan Mathews here. I'm not picking on Dan Mathews and don't mean to offend him, but he lives in Grand Junction. He is not very far from Fruita, Colorado. From 25 road on, there are the GOBBOS, Brachs, Tonozzis, Guccinis, Gay Johnson, and CSU Research fields that raise ALFALA and have FURROWS to irrigate with. They use cyphon tubes, gated pipe, linears, etc. and if he would even drive by those fields, hundreds of acres, he would see how they slope and how FLAT THEY MUST BE and then come and look at the AFTER mining and see that we have NO choices except for siderolls or pivots. Siderolls are nice and that is what must be used as a minimum, MINIMUM system. They can advance to maybe pivots, no Linears, and I'm not sure what else would work above a side roll. The Sunshine corner that has already been started-can never again go back to the type of irrigation we used prior to mining other than our sideroll and big gun. BUT if they go back to a big gun, WE PUMPED our water. I do not believe that Western Fuels wants to have to ever pump water again. With having to USE Siderolls since Nothing else under a sideroll will work, there is probably No way that we can PROVE to you using our figure, on paper, that this will work. We know it will, but to be able to prove it to you is an entirely different story. NRCS Must use that siderolls are only 70% efficient even though our documents state that they are more efficient NRCS has to be conservative. They must use .25 ET rates even though CSU states that the ET rates for this area are .1 to .2 and .25 to the extreme, so we have to go with the.25 figure. And then even though our side roll wheels are 7 foot wheels and we sometimes roll 4 rolls and we cover more than 60 feet all of the time sometimes 80 feet, NRCS uses a conservative figure of 60 feet which is the very minimum not the maximum amount. Even though the water loss is only 10% across the entire park and that is across the entire park, which to the Morgan place it is again very minimum and not evenl0%, NRCS must use that 12% that was given to them to be conservative. And I could go through the entire thing and show what the real figures are and what the conservative amount is but I think you have gotten my point. Different size nozzles, different size pipe, everything affects the outcome of whether or not 50 shares will do the job. Size of pipe is critical here. We have offered 12 more shares of water and we are the ones that will be doing the irrigating and the farming on all of the Morgan Property, and the water is available. 60 shares will be needed for the NEW plans using VERY conservative figures. Something to keep in mind here, is WE DO NOT JUST RAISE ALFALFA. When we plow our fields up to rotate our crops, we usually go back to corn. Problem here, is that WFC has forced us into a sideroll situation and YOU CANNOT RAISE CORN UNDER A SIDEROLL! ! ! ! So, that again takes away what we were able to do prior to mining. Now, we would have to go to oats or wheat or something that maybe we cannot get as much benefit out of like we did raising corn. So, YES WFC and YOU have hurt us in many ways, not just one way!!!! We are tired of the little games and the toying with our lives. Here is the way it is: Western Fuels removed our Prime Topsoil from our place. It was determined as prime topsoil in 1998 and we were looking at the soil surveys even back to 1988 and it was prime farmland. The DRMS needed to immediately handle the prime topsoil designation at that time according to Federal and