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October 6, 2016 C-1981-014/Southfield Mine RDZ <br /> <br /> <br />Number of Partial Inspection this Fiscal Year: 3 <br />Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Year: 1 <br /> <br /> Page 2 of 7 <br /> <br /> <br />Inspection Topic Summary <br />NOTE: Y=Inspected N=Not Inspected R=Comments Noted V=Violation Issued NA=Not Applicable <br />N - Air Resource Protection <br />N - Availability of Records <br />NA - Backfill & Grading <br />NA - Excess Spoil and Dev. Waste <br />NA - Explosives <br />N - Fish & Wildlife <br />R - Hydrologic Balance <br />N - Gen. Compliance With Mine Plan <br />N - Other <br />NA - Processing Waste <br /> <br />N - Roads <br />R - Reclamation Success <br />R - Revegetation <br />N - Subsidence <br />N - Slides and Other Damage <br />N - Support Facilities On-site <br />N - Signs and Markers <br />NA - Support Facilities Not On-site <br />NA - Special Categories Of Mining <br />N - Topsoil <br /> <br /> <br />COMMENTS <br /> <br />A partial inspection was conducted by Rob Zuber of the Division on October 6, 2016. No representative of EFCI <br />was present during any of the inspection. Jim Stark of the Division and Dr. Corley (landowner) and Carin Corley <br />were present for the portion of the inspection involving the Magpie Creek Diversion ditch. <br /> <br />The weather was partly cloudy and warm, and the ground was dry. <br /> <br />HYDROLOGIC BALANCE - Rule 4.05 <br />Drainage Control 4.05.1, 4.05.2, 4.05.3; Siltation Structures 4.05.5, 4.05.6; Discharge Structures 4.05.7, 4.05.10; <br />Diversions 4.05.4; Effluent Limits 4.05.2; Ground Water Monitoring 4.05.13; Surface Water Monitoring 4.05.13; <br />Drainage – Acid and Toxic Materials 4.05.8; Impoundments 4.05.6, 4.05.9; Stream Buffer Zones 4.05.18: <br />The Magpie Creek Diversion ditch was inspected at the lower end where work was performed in June to remove <br />the spring structure. Dr. Corley stated the following problems related to the recent reconstruction: <br /> The bank is bare where the excavator accessed the channel. <br /> A strip of filter fabric was removed during construction that is six to eight feet in width. <br /> An auger hole indicates that the material below the riprap is fine material rather than gravel. <br /> <br />Other observations regarding the Magpie Creek Diversion ditch: <br /> A small amount of water is still seeping out of the channel bottom at the upstream end of the large culvert <br />under the Monarch Fan Road. <br /> The culvert under the Monarch Fan Road (aka GEC Mine access road) is not effectively 8.8 feet in <br />diameter (as stated in the design in the PAP) due to distortion of the culvert pipe and due to sediment <br />accumulation at the upstream end. <br /> <br />