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November 27, 2018 C-1981-022/Elk Creek Mine LDS <br /> <br /> <br />Number of Partial Inspection this Fiscal Year: 4 <br />Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Year: 1 <br /> <br /> Page 2 of 8 <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 />N - Backfill & Grading <br />N - Excess Spoil and Dev. Waste <br />N - Explosives <br />N - Fish & Wildlife <br />R - Hydrologic Balance <br />N - Gen. Compliance With Mine Plan <br />N - Other <br />N - Processing Waste <br /> <br />N - Roads <br />N - 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 />N - Support Facilities Not On-site <br />N - Special Categories Of Mining <br />R - 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). Doug Smith of Oxbow Mining accompanied the inspection. The weather was cold and dry. The status <br />of the Elk Creek Mine, as far as the Division is concerned, is “Active” however no coal is being mined and all <br />activity at the site is focused on the early stages of reclamation. <br />All backfilling and grading had been completed, and the contractors had demobilised their equipment and <br />left the site. <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 new ditches T1 and T2 had been completed. The dimensions were not measured, but will be <br />compared with the design specification during a later inspection. <br />The partially obstructed culvert identified in the October inspection report (B-1) had been cleared. <br /> <br /> <br />REVEGETATION – Rule 4.15 <br />Vegetative Cover; Timing: <br /> Al disturbed areas had been re-seeded. Some of the recently seeded land showed a green blush from a <br />distance; on closer inspection most of this appeared to be caused by opportunistic annuals rather than perennial <br />species from the seed mix, which is as expected. <br /> <br />TOPSOIL – Rule 4.06 <br />Removal 4.06.2; Substitute Materials 4.06.4(4); Storage and Protection 4.06.3; Redistribution 4.06.4: <br /> The main topsoil pile had been used and the site left in its final configuration. The road to access the gas <br />pipeline had been left in place.