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3.0 Surface Water Information <br />The data collected from Oxbow Mining, LLC ( OMLLC) surface water monitoring sites along <br />with the results of laboratory analyses are presented in Exhibit 1- Surface Water Information. <br />The following site discussions are presented from west to east through the OMLLC property. <br />H -1 — Lower Hubbard Creek <br />Surface water monitoring point H -1 is located on Hubbard Creek, where this perennial stream <br />flows through the western edge of the OMLLC permit area associated with the abandoned but <br />reclaimed Somerset Mine facility area and Blue Ribbon Mine Facility. Until 1996, the most <br />recent surface activity in the area was the reclamation of the lower Hubbard Creek site. Mining <br />activities also included the upper Hubbard Creek facilities area and the reclaimed Blue Ribbon <br />Mine facility. In 2005 the Hubbard Bleeder Fansite was permitted and constructed. During <br />2007, Bowie Resources, Ltd started construction of a ventilation shaft facility on lands managed <br />by the USFS. The Bowie site is located adjacent to Hubbard Creek and up gradient of the <br />Hubbard Creek facilities. The Bowie shaft construction continued into 2008 as did use of the <br />upper Hubbard Creek facilities as a project staging area. <br />Hubbard Creek is a stream that also serves as a trans -basin diversion from the Terror Creek <br />reservoir during the summer irrigation season. The Hubbard Creek drainage and the Delta <br />County two track road is also used extensively by USFS and BLM recreationists and other <br />Bowie Resources mining related activities. <br />During 2009, the Blue Ribbon Mine received final Phase III bond release from CDRMS. Oxbow <br />initiated reclamation rough grading of the Hubbard Fansite in 2010 and completed reclamation <br />and seeding in 2011. The Bowie Hubbard Fansite was reclaimed and seeded in 2011. <br />The H -1 site is, in theory, utilized as a down gradient site to detect potential changes in stream <br />quality or quantity as a result of mining activities. Hubbard Creek point H -1 was monitored in <br />accordance with the permit requirements. Hubbard Creek continues to exhibit summer flow <br />volumes in response to the management of upstream diversions and regional snow conditions. <br />Hubbard Creek flows were less than 2011 and the 11 year average. Chloride levels seem to have <br />become elevated in 2012, for no apparent reason. Otherwise, no significant difference in the <br />2012 monitoring results from baseline or historical measurements were noted. <br />B -1, B -2 and B -3 — Bear Creek <br />The Bear Creek canyon light use road is used extensively to access the upper reaches of Bear <br />Creek for cattle and sheep grazing, logging, hunting, mine exploration and methane ventilation <br />activities, natural gas operating and support companies, etc. <br />B -1 -- Surface water monitoring point B -1 - Lower Bear Creek, an ephemeral drainage, is <br />monitored as a down gradient site to "verify" that the Elk Creek mine does not have an adverse <br />affect on the quality of runoff in the drainage. During 2012 there was, again, typically only <br />minimal to no flow at B -1 after the conclusion of spring snowmelt. Chloride levels appeared to <br />spike during the year, for no apparent reason. <br />6 <br />