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Notes for site visit January 3, 2014: <br />Jim and I arrived at 7:30 and Bill Bear took us around the site. Our <br />primary reason for the site visit was to observe completion of the <br />underdrain, but we also looked at active surface facilities for <br />completeness. <br />We started at Gob Pile #2. Coverfill from gob pile #3 was being <br />hauled to the stockpile located on bench #2, south of the haul road. <br />But, other than coverfill being hauled, the pile is idle. No gob is being <br />hauled to the pile, and no equipment is on site. Work will resume at <br />gob pile #2 when the weather allows. <br />We next went down to gob pile #3 where completion of the <br />underdrain was underway. I had been on site December 22nd, and the <br />trench portion had been completely installed and backfilled and the <br />final triangle section had been dug out, and pipes had been laid. A <br />small amount of rock had been placed on the pipes. Due to the <br />upcoming holidays, and the contractor running out of fabric and rock, <br />work at the underdrain was suspended until today. Progression of <br />work at the triangle area will involve backfilling the triangle section <br />with rock, then bringing a 2' section of rock up the face of the cut <br />surface. The rock will be kept in place by wrapping it with geotextile <br />fabric as the native material is brought up concurrently with the rock. <br />The native material will be compacted every two feet. See photos of <br />this work on pages 2 -4. <br />Gob was being hauled to gob pile #3. Due to a percentage of the <br />fines bypassing the wash plant, the gob is much better quality than <br />gob generated by the wash plant for the majority of 2013. It is not <br />the wet, soupy material that made conditions on gob pile #2 so <br />difficult last year. It is still necessary for the gob to be mixed with <br />native material, but as the weather warms, mixing with native will be <br />reduced or eliminated. Gob is being compacted as it is placed, <br />however no compaction testing has been performed in recent months <br />due to wet conditions. If the weather conditions remain relatively <br />dry, compaction testing will begin again soon. <br />All ponds were ice and snow covered. No substantial change in <br />water /sediment levels since my last visit. <br />