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W),? se6 Sunday, February 27, 2011 Wally Erickson Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety 691'County Road 233, Suite A-2 Durango, CO 81301 Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety 1313 Sherman St. Room 215 Denver, CO 80203 Ccs- 0 1 To all concerned parties, We find the permit application of Wildcat Mining Corp. (permit # M-1981-185) unacceptable. The applicants prior history of numerous illegal activities regarding the division's rules and regulations should disqualify them from consideration of this permit. We question their access road (built substandard and unpermitted) which is less than 100 feet from a number of very shallow wells (less than 20 feet). Their hauling of toxic chemicals and fuel adjacent to our property lines and wells presents an unacceptable risk. The traffic on this road may increase compaction of the roadbed and thus water infiltration and recharge to our wells, it may also impact water quality. I have needed to have water trucked to my cistern this winter for the first time since our system was completed. My conjecture is that through their illegal traffic across the river in the last few years with heavy equipment or an intentional smoothing .of the river crossing, has diverted the flow of the La Plata River away from the west channel to it all flowing in the east channel, which has impacted the groundwater recharge of my well. Where recharge was not an issue in the decades past, this is a logical cause. We have heard Arron Taylor has been hauling water for two years due to the same circumstances. The mine's proposed operations and tailings pile's proximity to the La Plata River and our wells is highly risky. We question the permit application's disposal of tailings in the old mine workings. Due to the highly faulted and fractured nature of the permit area their suppossition that ground and surface water would not be affected is highly doubtful. My reading shows Wildcat Mining's conclusions on the hydrology to be self favoring and questionable. We would urge the division's staff and board to deny this permit application. Sincerely, Dave Linden Erin Linden REEF- n FEB 2 8 2011 Division of n kation, ,/ Mining and Safety