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141 <br />1 this strategy. <br />2 Number two, "There is no direct <br />3 evidence that the mine pool is contributing to <br />4 Ralston Creek." We do not dispute that. The <br />5 operator has gone to great lengths today to tell us <br />6 that the mine pool -- there's no direct evidence the <br />7 mine pool is contributing to Ralston Creek. You see <br />8 my arguments in that regard. It has to do with the <br />9 cone of depression only in the last few months <br />10 coming back to it's steady state condition- <br />11 Number three, "Mixing calculations <br />12 indicate the flow from the mine pool to alluvium <br />13 represents at most 0.8 percent to 8 percent of the <br />14 flow in the alluvium." <br />15 The operator has relied on <br />16 bicarbonate, calcium, magnesium, sulfate, chloride, <br />17 total dissolved solids, and uranium in this <br />18 evaluation. In a setting such as Schwartzwalder, <br />19 the only truly conservative ion in the suite is <br />20 chloride, which returned an implausible result of <br />21 minus 1,220?percent contribution. The division <br />22 believes this analysis should be disregarded. <br />23 Number four, "The mine pool is not <br />24 affecting Ralston Creek via the Schwartz Trend." <br />25 Again, we do not dispute this. The