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United States Department of Agriculture <br />o MRCS <br />Natural Resources Conservation Service <br />Jim Boyd, Resource Conservationist <br />P. O. Box 29 <br />Norwood, CO 81423 <br />March 8, 2010 <br />Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />101 South 3' Street, Suite 301 <br />Grand Junction, CO 81501 <br />Dear Concerned Parties- <br />jim.boyd@co.usda.gov <br />970.327 - 4245 - OFFICE <br />970. 327 -4247 -FAX <br />At the request of the Morgan Family I have designed a sideroll sprinkler irrigation system using -7 P 9 — 1�, <br />NRCS irrigation design criteria for approximately 97.5 acres of their property within the mine }F*�► =- <br />permit boundaries of the New Horizon Mine, Western Fuels - Colorado. Looking at aerial 4)-g - rJ <br />hoto r by from 1973 and 1993 it is evident that a majority of the Morgan <br />roe was -4-i� ��nsst_ <br />irrigated and cropped. Of the 109 acres that has been or wi a mined by Western Fuels,-I f oo <br />es ma at at east 90% of it was historically irrigated for crop production , S� <br />The irrigation system design for the Morgan property requires - four, quarter mile long sideroll <br />--A A- <br />ir ab <br />4t <br />cm%w V <br />71*, vs S lv%�4 <br />& 414� <br />b \14 IFC. <br />Nyj� <br />S�Mo�e. <br />,.� ors <br />tk+tr I <br />10 <br />