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DRMS Permit Index
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C1982056
IBM Index Class Name
Revision
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6/16/2016
Doc Name
CPW Additional Info on Flocculant
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Colorado Parks and Wildlife
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DRMS
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MR298
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JLE
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6/16/2016 State.co.us Executive Branch Mail Fwd: Twentym ile Coal Use of Flocculant to Settle Coal Fines Prior to Dischar ge to Fish Creek <br />https://m ail.google.com /mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=e29129fcb5&view=pt&sear ch=inbox&th=1555950264ca3d89&siml=1555950264ca3d89 2/4 <br />Bill Atkinson <br />Aquatic Biologist <br />Colorado parks and Wildlif e <br />925 Weiss Dr. <br />St eamboat Springs, CO 80487 <br />office: 9708712868; cell: 9708469381 <br />email: bill.at kins on@s t ate.co.us <br />On Tue, J un 7, 2016 at 7:16 AM, Nettlet on, Jerry <J Nettlet on@peabodyenergy.c om> wrote: <br />Bill – <br /> <br />We hav e an ex is ting wat er treatment fac ility on Fish Creek that has been used for y ears to treat mine water prior to <br />discharge in order to meet t he effluent limits and requirements of our Colorado Dis charge Permitt ing System (CDPS) <br />indust rial discharge permit . Originally, this fac ility us ed s odiumhy drox ide (caus tic soda) to c hange the pH of t he <br />mine water dis c harge, c aus ing iron and other s us pended s olids to agglomerate and dropout in a three cell (in <br />s eries ) s ettling pond s y stem prior to dis c harge. Sodium hydroxide is a strong alk aline mat erial with c ert ain handling <br />haz ards , and the s y s tem was fairly ex pensiv e to operat e, so in 2006 Twenty mile converted our treat ment s y s tem to <br />an electroc oagulation s y s tem, where the mine water is directed over a series of charged elec tric plat es c ausing <br />s us pended s olids in the water to pic k up an elect rical charge, adhere to other particles, and dropout in t he s ettling <br />pond sy s tem prior t o disc harge. <br /> <br />While this s y s tem remains inplace, we hav e not us ed it for a number of years bec ause our extens iv e mine water <br />recycling sys t em has allowed us t o balanc e mine water us e with mine inf low and recy c ling s uc h t hat both our wat er <br />withdrawals and dis c harge hav e been minimal. We are moving int o a new c oal s eam whic h is underneath the <br />previously mined seam. In order t o s afely dev elop and mine this lower seam, we need to drain some of t he water <br />which has ac c umulated in the prev iously mined and sealed areas of the upper s eam. This additional water volume <br />means that we need to dis c harge some of the water. <br /> <br />The water that we need t o disc harge has elev ated c oal fines from pumping operations , elevat ed iron, and elev ated <br />elect rical conduc tiv ity (EC). In c onsultat ion with water treat ment profes sionals , we have determined that the c oal <br />f ines and iron c an most effect iv ely be t reated with a poly mer f loc c ulant. The flocculant would be metered into the <br />f low stream in t he ex is t ing Elec troCoagulat ion B uilding prior to a mix ing tank , wit h t he disc harge into the first c ell of <br />t he threecell set tling pond sys t em, and progres s iv e mov ement through the pond s y s tem to the dis c harge point. <br />The selected floc c ulant (SOLENIS Amerifloc 490 – Safet y Dat a Sheet attac hed) is approved for us e in drink ing <br />wat er systems , and at the proposed feed rate of 20 mg/l will be c onsumed in the reac tion with s uspended solids , <br />with little or no res idual in the dis c harge t o t he s tream. The SDS s heet (Sect ion 12) indic ates an LC50 for Daphnia <br />magna (most sens itive aquatic species) of 10 – 100 mg/l, wit h an expos ure time of 48 hours . Based on t his <br />information, our tes ting, and the cons ultants rec ommendations , we are conf ident that we c an meet our permit <br />effluent limit s (whic h include WET tes ting) while using t his treatment method. Cons istent with pas t pract ic e, we <br />propose to limit discharge to high flow periods (ty pic ally during s pring runoff ) in order to tak e advant age of the <br />resulting mix ing and dilut ion so that we c an meet a relatively s tringent EC limit. <br /> <br />We hav e applied to t he Colorado Div is ion of Rec lamat ion, Mining, and Saf ety for a permit rev ision to allow us e of <br />t his additional treatment method, and they hav e requested c ons ult ation with Colorado Park s and Wildlife. Giv en <br />t hat we are already int o t he runoff s eas on, we would like to proc es s this reques t as s oon as pos s ible in order t o <br />discharge this y ear, s o we would v ery muc h appreciate your t imely cons ideration and respons e. I hav e attached a <br />s ample CPW cons ultation letter as a templat e to facilitate y our res ponse. Please feel free t o c ontact me with any <br />ques tions, or to discuss . Thanks for y our c onsiderat ion and assis tanc e – <br /> <br /> <br />Bes t regards , <br />
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