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<br />DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />171 3 Sherman SI , Room ? 15 <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br />Phone:1303)866-3567 <br />FAX: 1303) 832-8106 <br />DATE: July 16, 1993 <br />TO: Christine Johnston <br />FROM: Jim Pendleton <br />RE: Subsidenc ns on - Citizen's Complaint <br />Mt. Gunnison No. 1 Mine (Permit #C-80-00'n <br />OF.~~(O <br />tip, <br />New <br />~ ~. <br />~ /B l6 <br />Roy Romer <br />Governor <br />Michael B. Long <br />D ie ision Direcmr <br />It was an "excruciating pleasure" participating in a 4-mile hike <br />through the scrub oak of Jumbo Mountain on Tuesday, July 13, 1993. <br />Larry Mautz, the complaining citizen, Henry Barbe of West Elk Coal, <br />one small black bear, and I, accompanied you on the subsidence <br />inspection. <br />Mr. Mautz alleged that the flow from a decreed (adjudicated) spring <br />on his property in Section 20, T13S, R90W had been discontinued or <br />interrupted by subsidence above the Mt. Gunnison No. 1 Mine's <br />underground workings. Mr. Mautz purchased the property in 1992. <br />The water rights to the decreed spring came with the property. <br />According to Mr. Mautz the spring supplied domestic water to a <br />cabin, barn, and associated barnyard through the mid-1970s. The <br />buildings have fallen into disrepair and literally collapsed. Mr. <br />Mautz intends to rehabilitate the buildings for use as an <br />outfitter's cabin for spring, summer and fall occupancy by hunters <br />and naturalist tourists. <br />Mr. Mautz stated that the previous owner claims that the spring <br />flowed continuously. Larry reported that the spring was not <br />flowing when he inspected the site in May of this year. He <br />photographed the spring during his visit. Mr. Mautz also showed us <br />a well developed subsidence crack on the hillslope several hundred <br />feet upslope from the spring. The spring had been developed with <br />a gravel pack and a 3/4" iron pipe which transported the water <br />approximately 1/2 mile across and downslope to the cabin. Gravity <br />flow apparently prevented the pipeline from freezing. The pipeline <br />has subsequently been broken in numerous locations as a result of <br />a large block glide landslide, whose current headscarp is <br />approximately a hundred feet downslope from the old spring. Viewed <br />from downslope near the cabin the landslide appears to affect an <br />area of the slope approximately 200 feet vertically by 350 feet <br />horizontally. The ground is intensely cracked with extensional <br />~II ~II~I~~I~~~~~ ~I~ <br />sss <br />STATE OF COLORADO <br />