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July 30, 2018 C-1980-007/West Elk Mine LDS <br /> <br /> <br />Number of Partial Inspection this Fiscal Year: 1 <br />Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Year: 0 <br /> <br /> Page 2 of 10 <br /> <br /> <br />Inspection Topic Summary <br />NOTE: Y=Inspected N=Not Inspected R=Comments Noted V=Violation Issued NA=Not Applicable <br />R - Air Resource Protection <br />N - Availability of Records <br />N - Backfill & Grading <br />N - Excess Spoil and Dev. Waste <br />N - Explosives <br />N - Fish & Wildlife <br />R - Hydrologic Balance <br />R - Gen. Compliance With Mine Plan <br />N - Other <br />R - Processing Waste <br /> <br />R - Roads <br />N - Reclamation Success <br />N - Revegetation <br />N - Subsidence <br />R - Slides and Other Damage <br />N - Support Facilities On-site <br />N - Signs and Markers <br />N - Support Facilities Not On-site <br />N - Special Categories Of Mining <br />N - Topsoil <br /> <br /> <br />COMMENTS <br /> <br />This was a partial inspection by Leigh Simmons of the Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety <br />(Division). Mike Peacock of Mountain Coal Company (MCC) accompanied the inspection. The weather was hot <br />and dry, with wildfire smoke haze in the air. The mine was active. <br /> <br />AIR RESOURCE PROTECTION – Rule 4.17: <br /> The Run Of Mine coal stockpile was observed during a good breeze. No dust was visible rising from the <br />surface of the pile. <br />Water trucks were operating throughout the inspection. <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 /> Water levels were low in all ponds, following a very dry period. No problems were observed with any of <br />the ponds. <br />The concrete-lined ditch adjacent to the Run-of-Mine coal stockpile was cracked and had heaved in <br />places. MCC’s mine site-wide ditch repair project was underway along the portal access road and MCC said that <br />they plan to complete repairs to the stockpile ditch next. This is not a compliance issue for the Division since the <br />ditch will still convey surface runoff to the sediment pond. <br /> <br />GENERAL MINE PLAN COMPLIANCE: <br /> At the time of the inspection the longwall was in panel E7, at around cross cut 19 on the head gate. <br />Continuous miners were in the Sunset Mains South, at around cross cut 8; and in the E8 head gate, at around cross <br />cut 23. <br />The following permitting actions were in progress: