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11/17/2014 State.co.us Executive Branch Mail - Fwd: FW: MWNW and an illegal well that has to be removed <br />STATE, OF Hernandez - DNR Alysha <aysha- hernandez @state- co -us> <br />COLORADO <br />Zuber - DNR, Rob <rob.zuber @state.co.us> Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 8:47 AM <br />To: Alysha Hernandez - DNR <alysha.hernandez @ state.co.us>, Mary Rodriguez - DNR <br /><mary.rodriguez@state.co.us> <br />Alysha /Mary — <br />Please file this Southfield email under General Correspondence and name it "Email from Linda Saunders." <br />Thanks, <br />9 <br />Hi Dave -- <br />Last Thursday, I spoke on the phone with Ground Water Commissioner Dale Baker from DWR's office in Pueblo <br />regarding his 10/7/13 meeting with Linda Saunders at the Southfield Mine on Vento property. Here's what he had <br />to say: <br />He will be writing neither an inspection report nor a memo to anyone regarding his 10/7/13 visit to the <br />Southfield mine. <br />He told me that DWR is not planning to issue or take enforcement action against EFCI regarding the two <br />wells that are the subject of Linda Saunders' e-mail below. He said that DWR deals with landowners, not <br />third parties, when it comes to unpermitted wells. He told me that it's Linda Saunders' responsibility, not <br />EFCI's, to comply with DWR's well permitting requirements regarding the two wells mentioned by Linda <br />Saunders in her e-mail below, indicating that DWR is of the opinion that it's Linda Saunders, not EFCI, <br />who is presently out of compliance with DWR's well permitting requirements. He said that if landowners <br />have issues regarding wells drilled by third parties on their (the landowners') property, those issues need <br />to be resolved between the landowners and the third parties, not between DWR and the third parties. <br />He told me that when he asked Linda Saunders during his site visit what it was that she wanted, he told <br />me that she had told him that she wants a domestic well. He told me that she could probably obtain a <br />domestic well permit for the MWNW well if she were to apply for it. <br />Regarding the 2nd well in Linda Saunders' e-mail, it appears to be a defunct mine dewatering well. It lies <br />east and a bit north of the MWNW well. From what Rob and I can tell, this second well is also on Vento <br />property. It appears to be a well identified by Southfield on their hydrology map as mine dewatering well <br />Zenith #2. Rob at his last inspection of Southfield took pictures of what he thought might be this 2nd <br />well, sent them to Linda Saunders, and asked her to verify if the well he photographed was this 2nd well. <br />Ms. Saunders said it was. This 2nd well is not required by us to be monitored by EFCI. <br />https: / /mail.googl e.com /m ai I /u/0 / ?ui =2 &i k= e29129fcb5 &view =pt &search= i nbox &th= 149be700b823e9ff &si m l= 149be700b823e9ff 1/3 <br />