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INSPECTION REPORT 2 Reclamation of the East Buzzard drainage is to be completed by the summer of ' 92. The MSHA sized dam in the area, Coyote, was inspected. water levels in the impoundment are at an all time low according to company officials. Work was recently completed on the drawdown device/spillway. Company officials indicated that one of the collars on one of the joints in the CMP pipe had slipped. The repair has been completed but the water level in the pond has not risen back up to the spillway entry so the pipe outfall should be checked periodically to see if that was the only leak in the system. Their 12 inch parshall flume below the pond embankment in the drainage below the dam had about four gallons per minute flowing through it from a marshy seep area at the toe of the structure. Overburden in the Colt pit was being loaded for a shoot to be set off later in the week. Mr. Gorham measured the distance between the outside of the loaded holes and the power line on the mine perimeter to verify blasting limits. The company has requested that the MLRD approve a blasting variance for shots within the 300 feet buffer zone of that electric utility line. Approval has been granted. While we were in the area, the comment was made by the Mi.RD that a portion of the dirty water ` diversion underneath the power line at the mine perimeter needs additional protection or armouring to maintain the integrity of the channel. Mr. Agnew said that it would be done. Rip rap was needed for the outfall of the open channel on west Buzzard pond #006. Amine water discharge from the pond was noted, '/~I approximately 3 to 4 gallons per minute. 1 The "Queen Ann" dragline was working on the north side of the Dierenger ~ pit. The disturbed area from last years mining on the east side of the Browning pit was graded, resoiled and planted last fall. Small rills were noted in the reclaimed area on the uphill side of the access road through the area during the initial part of the inspection. The comment was made that mulch was needed to prevent further erosion. Later on in the inspection, we returned to the area and noted that company officials took the initiative to hand spread mulch over the erosion channels to stabilize them until vegetation can take over. East Buzzard upper pond was discharging but there was none occurring from the lower one in the series. No Name Gulch Dam #4 was discharging out of the primary spillway into the lower sediment pond, flow from that pond, dam #5 (NPDES point 002), was 2.4 inches in the 12 inch flume used for monitoring the outfall. Mine water was in this area was being pumped from the Dierenger pit. Records of pumpage are recorded.