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outside of the road to promote natural drainage pattern establishment. Where necessary, <br />drainage swales were also constructed. Low water crossings were created where the roads <br />intersected significant drainages. Upon completion of backfilling and grading operations, the roads <br />were severely scarified, seeded, fertilized and mulched. Approximately 12.5 miles (92 acres) of <br />remnant reclaimed roads will remain. <br />A culvert was unearthed during a recent rain event where Road G (Mine 5 Road) crosses Oil Well <br />Creek. This culvert was buried and unknown during the minesite reclamation and cleanup. The <br />culvert is in the creek channel below the road and does not pose a danger to hikers on the road. <br />Waste Piles <br />Mid - Continent Resources reclaimed portions of the Old Refuse and Sutey Refuse Piles prior to July, <br />1994. The Division reclaimed a small portion of the Old Refuse Pile and the majority of the Sutey <br />Pile following the permit revocation and bond forfeiture processes <br />Reclamation of both piles consisted of removing and demolishing all conveyor belt foundations, <br />grading of the coal refuse to achieve a stable landform, applying twenty inches of topsoil, <br />constructing run -on diversion and run -off conveyance ditches, seeding, fertilizing and mulching. <br />The bench area south of the Mine 1 entries was an equipment storage facility and a solid waste <br />disposal site. During reclamation, the solid waste was consolidated in a pit on the bench, covered <br />with approximately 6 feet of overburden, seeded and mulched. <br />Rock Tunnel and Rock Tunnel Waste Pile <br />The Rock Tunnel is a twin bore entry constructed through non -coal bearing shale and sandstone <br />near the confluence of the North Fork of Dutch Creek and Dutch Creek. The Rock Tunnel <br />intersected Mines 1 and 2 in the subsurface where coal, men and materials were moved between <br />the mine and the surface. The Rock Tunnel Waste Pile is an approximately seventeen -acre area <br />that is constructed of waste rock materials generated during construction of the twin bore Rock <br />Tunnel. The tunnel portals and waste pile, located on private property, have been reclaimed and <br />were released from Division jurisdiction in SL -1 on February 4, 2008. <br />Dutch Creek Flume <br />The Division applied for, and received, a grant from the Office of Surface Mining to replace the <br />problem -prone Dutch Creek flume with a permanent, naturally functioning channel. Dutch Creek is <br />prone to frequent flash flooding containing large amounts of sediment, rocks and trees. The <br />channel was built to be an active, migrating channel, mimicking the natural stream tendencies and <br />9 <br />