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2014 Annual Reclamation Report <br />Southfield Mine <br />good condition, the only required repairs or maintenance as noted below. In conjunction with <br />final site reclamation and ongoing site maintenance, EFCI completed the following specific <br />activities: <br />* Graded short sections of the mine site entrance road from Pond 5 westerly to the gate adjacent <br />to the abandoned Vento mine office building; <br />* Reshaped `bar trenches' across road to direct sheet flow to road ditch above the intersection of <br />CR92 and the refuse pile access road; <br />* Cleaned /graded road ditch adjacent to intersection of CR92 and refuse pile access road; the <br />steep section of the refuse pile access road; <br />* Added one straw wattle and straw blanket and reseeded the road bank adjacent to the parking <br />area on Vento property in former facilities area; cleaned previously installed wattles and <br />added straw plugging where water underflowed wattles; <br />* Graded 2 sections of ditch on Monarch road and re- graded rutted section just north of the <br />"Y" of the Monarch Road and road to neighboring Davidson cabin; <br />* Installed 75 ton rip -rap rock in gully below Culvert S -1 (Monarch Road) and added 4 ft <br />extension to S -1 culvert; <br />* Installed 100 ton of rip -rap rock in drainage ditch at NW toe of Chen Hill (GEC Mine road <br />adjacent to Pond 5; <br />* Repaired subsidence tension cracks, repaired wash at former Corley water line, removed <br />broken pieces of pipe and reseeded area on Corley property and reseeded subsidence <br />features at former Canon National mine; <br />* Drilled new water well to mitigate former Corley Company Well No. 119459; <br />* Drill holes /boreholes of the SR and SF Series were searched and verified and respective <br />open holes were sealed and reclaimed; <br />* Backfilled and reclaimed sediment ponds L1 and L2 at the loadout site; <br />* Removed broken concrete and trash from East Loadout site and trash from west Pond L2 <br />(from trespasser illegal dumping). <br />Map 1, Mine Site Reclamation, portrays the general location, dates, and areas of revegetation and <br />reseeding in and adjacent to the former Mine Facilities area. In addition, the map indicates the <br />locations of Mine Site reclamation activities completed during 2014. Dates of revegetation and /or <br />reseeding for the ancillary facilities areas and the Loadout area are shown on Map 2, Ancillary <br />Facilities Areas Reclamation and Map 3, Loadout Area Reclamation. <br />Disturbed, Backfilled and Topsoiled Areas <br />During 2012, subsidence features were repaired at the abandoned Canon National Mine located in <br />Section 25. 0.50 acre consisting of six subsidence holes was considered disturbed and therefore <br />the subsidence features were cleaned of debris, Backfilled, compacted, re- topsoiled, seeded and <br />mulched during October of 2012. The six holes had subsided due to the shallow mine workings of <br />3 <br />