2008-03-12_GENERAL DOCUMENTS - C1981019

• Permit No: C1981019
• IBM Index Class Name: GENERAL DOCUMENTS
• Doc Date: 3/12/2008
• Doc Name: Follow-Up on 26 February 2008 Meeting
• From: DRMS
• To: Colowyo Coal Company
• Permit Index Doc Type: General Correspondence
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
12 March 2008
Mr. Kurtis Blunt
Colowyo Coal Company, LP
5731 State Highway 13
Meeker, CO 81641
Re: Colo~wyo Mine C-1981-019
Follow-Up on 26 February 2008 Meeting
Dear Mr. Blunt:
COLORADO
DIVISION O F
RECLAMATION
MINING
-&-
SAFETY
Bill Ritter, Jr.
Governor
Harris D. Sherman
Executive Director
Ronald W. Cattany
Division Director
Natural Resource Trustee
Thank you for accommodating the Division and getting all of the appropriate people
together for our meeting on 26 February 2008. The Division believes that the meeting
was very productive and some real progress was made on the outstanding issues at the
Colowyo Mine. The following is a brief summary of the issues that were discussed at the
meeting and any decisions or commitments that were reached.
Present at the meeting were Mike Boulay, Sandy Brown, Kent Gorham and Jim Stark
from the Division, Kurtis Blunt and Tony Tennyson from Colowyo and Brandt Dennis
and Tom Peterson, independent consultants, were also present on behalf of Colowyo.
The first issue that was discussed was Stipulation 5, which was attached to the Colowyo
permit as a result of Permit Revision 02. Stipulation 5 required Colowyo to add alluvial
wells A7 and A8 to the approved hydrologic monitoring plan in the permit. The Division
and Colowyo lead exchanged several letters regarding the subject and were at an impasse.
At the meeting Colowyo proposed a new monitoring plan that would incorporate the
required wells and modify the sampling at other locations. The proposal is as follows:
1. Colowyo will add wells A7 and A8 to the hydrologic monitoring plan.
2. All alluvial wells will be sampled on a quarterly basis.
3. Field parameters only will be taken at all alluvial wells in the first and
third quarter of every year (including water level, pH, conductivity, etc.)
.as detailed in the currently approved hydrologic monitoring plan.
4. .A full suite analysis will be conducted at all alluvial wells in the second
a.nd fourth quarters of each year. These samples will represent the
seasonal high and low flows at the wells. The required parameters will
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