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within the permit area, <br />pote?tiai Prime Farmland is the 107.46 acres of Morgan ip erty y w wit y am g- <br />oad and B o , is OmIn <br />mplex soils. Pending further dotation reg dw esumhistoric management and ed to be Prime Farmland $and will be <br />dependable irrigation water supplies, the acreage p <br />managed and reclaimed in accordance with Prime Farmland reqyxircrnenls. <br />Water Rights and Usage <br />The water rigkxts, usage and augmentation plan is presented in Section 2.05.6(3) of the permit have <br />the <br />impacted application. There are i 1 surface water righes2 a'?hese arc upogradient of Sediment fond 007 <br />Western Fuels operations at New Horizon M <br />mr ? ??g ??v deg ?just <br />?two, e dew-Hori an <br />at the site. 'mere are 29 water wells adjacent to themine <br />D-041 on Figure 2 of Tab l6, could be impaoted hy £ <br />Mine 2 site. These two wells axe 150 feet or less deep and <br />Fuels estimated that drawdvwzr might be <br />aquifers. At the end of hire years of operation, Western <br />one foot within a 0.1 mile radius of the center of the New Horizon Mine 2 <br />wells to detect any hanSe3pn their hydrologic <br />proposes, with owner consent, to monitor these <br />conditions. <br />,Western Fuels-Colorado will use the following alternative water sources to mitigate any ground <br />or surface water right impacts.' Western fuels <br />with Western Fuels ownership f 27 shar s of the <br />which is a consmptive use credit associated <br />Colorado Cooperative Company (CCC). Western Fuels has an absolute 4 acre-foot storage right <br />for the 001 reservoir at the New Horizon Mitre 1 area and is troJected to have 18 acre-feet of pit <br />pumpage during the non-irrigation season available to them for use. Western Fuels also has a 1.5 <br />acre-foot ground water right associated with the mined-out shop well. <br />It is from these alternative sources of water that the su e arwater e forecast. w p an <br />shs be a <br />developed. No ground water impacts requiring mitigation Western Fuels will <br />ground water supply be diminished to such an extent that it precludes its use, <br />replace this supply with surface water available to them (only 62.1 of tlhe 1drill a ?fe ell of CCC <br />water is required for the surface water auglnentatxcm plan) WFC <br />The monitoring plan is described in Section B, Item 11 E, of this Findings Document. The plan is <br />detailed enough to show any impacts on adjacent water rights to the New Horizon Mine sites. <br />Western, Fuels-Colorado has shown that it has adequate water rights to mitigate any discovered <br />impacts and this complies with the requirements of 4.05.15. <br />is