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April 12, 2017 C-1992-081/Hayden Gulch Loadout JDM <br /> <br /> <br />Number of Partial Inspection this Fiscal Year: 8 <br />Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Year: 3 <br /> <br /> Page 2 of 5 <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 />R - Backfill & Grading <br />NA - Excess Spoil and Dev. Waste <br />NA - Explosives <br />N - Fish & Wildlife <br />R - Hydrologic Balance <br />Y - Gen. Compliance With Mine Plan <br />NA - Other <br />NA - Processing Waste <br /> <br />R - Roads <br />Y - Reclamation Success <br />Y - Revegetation <br />NA - Subsidence <br />NA - Slides and Other Damage <br />Y - Support Facilities On-site <br />Y - 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 />This was a partial coal inspection of the Hayden Gulch Loadout conducted by Jason Musick of CDRMS. Miranda <br />Blomquist of Peabody Energy accompanied the inspection. The loadout site was sry and the weather was clear at <br />the time of the inspection. No activities were being conducted at the main facilities area or around the railway. <br />No mantainence or reclamation activities of the main facilities area, the railway, or the Tie -Across Haul Road <br />were on-going at the time of the inspection. One excavator was on site in preperation to conduct maintenance <br />operations at the site with no activities occuring at the time of the inspection. <br /> <br />BACKFILL and GRADING – Rule 4.14 Contemporaneous Reclamation 4.14.1; Approximate Original Contour <br />4.14.2; Highwall Elimination 4.14.1(2)(f); Steep Slopes 4.14.2, 4.27; Handling of Acid and Toxic Materials <br />4.14.3; Stabilization of Rills and Gullies 4.14.6: <br /> <br />Backfilling and grading operations of the office area, loadout area, and railway area have been completed. No <br />structures remain on the site with the exception of the electrical sub-station and the rail loop. BMPs were in place <br />in the form of straw waddles for erosion control. No evidence of final grading to approximate original contours <br />was observed. No maintenance items were observed, with the exception of the following: <br /> <br />- The lay-down area near the railway just west of the rail loop pond remains ungraded and material <br />remains pushed into what should be Ditches 7, 8, and 3. A small portion of the material has been cleared to <br />allow for flow of the impounded water to the rail loop pond. This area continues to require regrading and <br />the ditches to be re-established. One 315 CAT excavator was on-site at the time of the inspection. More <br />information is presented in the Hydrologic Balance section of this report. As noted in the May 2017 <br />Division Inspection report, this work is required to be completed by April 30, 2017. <br /> <br />HYDROLOGIC BALANCE - Rule 4.05 Drainage Control 4.05.1, 4.05.2, 4.05.3; Siltation Structures 4.05.5, <br />4.05.6; Discharge Structures 4.05.7, 4.05.10; Diversions 4.05.4; Effluent Limits 4.05.2; Ground Water <br />Monitoring 4.05.13; Surface Water Monitoring 4.05.13; Drainage – Acid and Toxic Materials 4.05.8; <br />Impoundments 4.05.6, 4.05.9; Stream Buffer Zones 4.05.18: <br /> <br />The truck loop pond was holding water with no discharge noted through the primary CMP spillway and the valve <br />on the spillway was closed. The embankments were well vegetated and stable with no problems noted. The Rail