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B. The water for the wash plant will come via a pipeline from the Nixon Power Plant just <br /> south of the operation. The wash plant uses a recycling system and therefore the water <br /> purchased from the power plant and the Colorado Springs Utility Department will only <br /> be for replacement of water lost by evaporation and absorption in product. <br /> Product Stockpiles: <br /> A. Product stockpiling is kept near the processing plant except for very large orders which <br /> are stockpiled a short ways away from the plant where storage space is more available. <br /> B. Usually, customer trucks come to the stockpiles to be loaded and then go to the scale <br /> house for weighing and purchase of the material, if it is not already paid for. <br /> Major Powerline Setbacks and Effects on Mining. <br /> (Note: The following is entirely new to the plan. The easement was established in <br /> 2006. All documents are included in this revision.) <br /> A. Easements set by agreement between Schmidt and Colorado Springs Utility(CSU) <br /> exist along the east side of the operation to contain the 230 KV powerlines that run <br /> from the Nixon Powerplant to Colorado Springs. These easements were established in <br /> about 2014, long after the Cooley plan(AM2)was created. <br /> B. These are within the Permit Boundary but are outside a permanent portion of the <br /> Affected Land Boundary which here is at the western boundary of the easement <br /> corridor. <br /> C. However,no mining occurs or will occur within 90 to 100 feet of the Affected Land <br /> Boundary and the powerline easement. <br /> D. Because the powerpoles are generally 45 to 55 feet inside the easement(50'nominal) <br /> no mining occurs within about 150 feet of any power pole. <br /> E. CSU does allow surface disturbances within the easement,but excavations only with <br /> prior approval and supervision by CSU personnel. <br /> Maximum Amount of Righwall at Any One Time: <br /> A. It has been calculated that about 2,300 to 2,700 feet of highwall will be contained in <br /> the highwall that extends from each side of the operation across its width. <br /> B. Highwalls along each side of the operation will be about 1,500 feet each at the <br /> maximum. <br /> C. Therefore the maximum highwall at any one time will be between 5,500 and 6,000 <br /> feet. <br /> Fountain Pit Technical Revision#3 - June 2022 M-1982-155 Mining Plan Page 5 of 22 <br />