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,~ IIIIIINIIIIIIIIIII~ March 20, 1978 Mr. James L. Schmieding Mined Land Reclamation Division 1313 Sherman Street, Room 723 Denver, Colorado 80203 Dear Mr. Schmieding, VALCO, INC. GENERAL OFFICES P. O. BOX 550 ROCKY FORD, COLORADO 81067 (303)254-7464 Re Valco, Inc. - Pueblo West Pit - MLR File No. 77-573 Division of Water Resources Memorandum, March 7, 1978 We appreciate your forwarding to us a copy of the Division of Water Resources memorandum concerning our operations at the Pueblo West Pit. Living and working in the Arkansas Valley as we do at Valco, we are aware of water problems in the Valley. Much of our product goes into concrete irrigation ditches and other water facilities. In our operating area throughout the Valley we continually attempt to conserve water and minimize the effects of our operations on the hydrologic balance. We feel we are doing a good job in this respect. Dr. Danielson's staff may have missed a few items in review- ing our application, This is quite understandable in light of the number of applications being processed at this time. Our comments with respect to the items delineated in the memorandum follow. They are numbered to conform to the para- graph numbers in the memorandum. 1. Map Exhibits C, C-1, D-1 and F indicate that the Hamp- Bell Ditch is never closer than 50 feet and is usually further than 80 feet from the areas to be dewatered. To date dewatering has had no effect on the nearby wells in the area or on the Hamp-Bell Ditch. The closest dewatering that could affect the two wells mentioned in the DWR memorandum is approximately one-half mile to the southwest; wells as close as 300 feet have not been affected up to now by dewatering. It is not expected that downstream dewatering, which is lower on the potentiometric surface, would affect these wells. We appreciate the DWR identifying to us a well owned by the City of Pueblo which they claim is adjacent to the east side of Area 4. We were unaware this well existed. The best property description of the well location we can obtain from DWR records is somewhere within the NW/4 NE/4 Section 33, T20S, R65W, 6th P.M. Since our east property line is the Arkansas River, we can only assume the well in question is on the other side of the river between 130 and 1300 feet from the area to be dewatered in the year 2008. From our past experience with dewatering in this area, we do not believe the City of Pueblo well on the north side of the river will be affected. LAMAR CANON CITY PUEBLO