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6.3.2(b) <br />Permanent Man-Made Structures: <br />Public Right of Way Roads & Historic Mining Roads <br />The primary access to this locale is Virginia Canyon Rd. which is part of the County road network. Also, <br />within this vicinity there are numerous historic mining roads that traditionally have public right of way. <br />There is one such of these road segments that accesses the abandoned waste rock dump at it's upper end. <br />Refer- to the maps in Exhibit A & E as well as a stability analysis in Exhibit L. <br />Electric Utility Distribution Lines <br />There is nearby a 25kV overhead electric utility distribution line, owned by Xcel Energy, and it is shown in <br />Exhibits A and E. <br />Telecom Lines <br />There is nearby telecommunications lines sharing ROW on the overhead electric utility previously mentioned. <br />Natural Gas Line <br />Underlying Virginia Canyon Rd. there lies a natural gas distribution line. <br />6.3.2(c) <br />Water Resource Description: <br />Surface Waters <br />North Clear Creek bears approx. 4.0 miles to the east and 1,800' in elevation below the affected area. Drainage <br />from this watershed area follows down Russell Gulch to North Clear Creek. Historically, the drainage from this <br />vicinity contains acid-runoff/drainage from the numerous abandoned mine waste rock piles and adits located <br />throughout this gulch. Most of these sources are not within the control of Venture Resources (le other private <br />property owners). <br />The proposed operations and subsequent reclamation measures will remove the acidic contribution from Venture <br />Resources' properties and proportionally reduce contamination to surface waters. The waste rock dumps on Venture <br />Resources' property will be removed, processed and re-impounded in a remediated state at an offsite location. Refer <br />to Exhibit C and D for more information. <br />It shall also be noted that this area is not within a floodplain (ref. FEMA Map #08-335A-080075-Pg. 12 attached in <br />Exhibit Q. <br />Groundwater: <br />There are limited perched zones and no traditionally defined aquifers in this mountainous area. The site is <br />completely composed of crystalline Precarnbrian rocks, i.e. gneisses and schists, and tertiary intrusive rocks such as <br />quartz monzonites overlain by 0-24" of unconsolidated material. <br />Ground water wells within one quarter mile of site boundary are detailed in a map attached at the end of Exhibit C, <br />sourced from the Colorado Division of Water Resources. It shall also be noted that the groundwater in this area is <br />unclassified per the Colorado Division of Water Resources and is eventually used for surface water recharge. <br />Unconsolidated materials, soils, of between 0 and 18"-24" overlay the crystalline rocks. The rocks themselves have <br />essentially no porosity or permeability. Random, in-identifiable fractures due to jointing and faulting provide the <br />only groundwater transmissivity and relative porosity. The site is underlain by numerous mine openings, the most <br />important of which is the workings of the Old Town Mine (mine complex immediately adjacent to the east). This <br />mine's workings effectively drain the area underneath the site, connecting the Old Town to the Argo 'runnel via the <br />Hot Thne Lateral. Refer to USGS Professional Paper 359, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE CENTRAL CITY <br />DISTRICT, GILPIN COUNTY, COLORADO, Sims, P. K., Drake, A. A., and Tooker, E. W., 1963 at the end of <br />Exhibit C for a map detailing this. <br />Page 2 of 3