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(Page 2) MINE ID # OR PROSPECTING ID # M85-023 INSPECTION DATE 07/12/94 INSPEC~lOA'S This inspection was conducted by the Division ae a result of a inforn office by the Colo Dept of Health. They were originally notified by the contamination incident on BLM land, ae part of an asphalt operation, notified by the Division about this inspection, but was unable to be l operator did, however, notify the lessee, Columbine Paving, about the representative was contacted by the Division about this inspection, and This inspector met Mt Craig Blacketter, BLM, and Mr Randy Coffman, Colw site during the inspection. Afterward, this inspector discussed tl findings of the inspection with the operator, Mr Fred Schmalz, at hie < The permit area is 9.9 acres, and bond ie $5000. There is evidei Management Plan for this site. Both the operator and the lessee verifi processed into asphalt originated from this pit, making this a captive There are several issues to be settled regarding this operation, each u of separate entities. This originated ae a discovery of trespass by land. The asphalt plant, ie pertly on BLM land, and ie also contain: possibly the groundwater, eo the Colorado Dept of Health/Hazardous Disposal Division was contacted by BLH. A scheme to dispose of eventually involve the county (ie., landfill and the office of envir. t is an active mining operation, this office was notified, and subsequent area of offeite damage, which will be discussed below. The site was identified by the required permit sign. There were no bounc This permit area ie located on and adjacent to a prior mining site. Th disturbance, both in and out of the permit area, resulting from previ~ file shows that the old pit was to be expanded, an existing access roe enter and exit the pit, all stockpiling and processing was to occur in a future asphalt plant was to be present possibly on the permit area. application map chows the old pit boundaries, an existing road, and a f the west of the permit boundary. The application map labels the fence line. This fenceline ie still present, but it ie not the property located well within BLM land, according the recently performed BLM cur INITIALS RCO on given to this lregarding a soil The operator was lent for it. The section. The BLM s present oneite. ne Paving, at the observations and of a Stormwater that all material station. r the jurisdiction a operation on BLN ing the soil, and teriale and wnete contaminants may th). Because this found an extensive - y markers visible. ~ is extensive old i operations. The was to be used to a permit area, and ie original permit - :eline 200 feet to - i the BLM property ~e. The fence ie Mr Blacketter initially showed this inspector the stakes installed on he north-south BLM property line. Said staked line passes through the entire length (N S) of the western portion of the permit area. The line showed a large area being present y disturbed by the operator which is on BLM land, therefore outside the permit boundary. sing the prominent feature of the ecceee road into the permit area (represented on the pe it map end present oneite) this inspector also measured an area on private land which was al o out of the permit area. This latter area ie downhill (north) of the permitted pit area, and p: office trailer, scales, equipment storage and turnaround area, pa stockpiles, a building and foundation, fuel and asphalt material tanks, a water pond, power generator, and half of the asphalt batch plant. The ec plant ie stained dark from the continued spilling of asphalt, its conetit and/or fuel. The parking and turnaround area mentioned above coneieti materiel deposited there which has entirely covered about 500 linear drainage shown on the permit maps. It ie unknown if an underdrain ie asphalt plant was operating and several trucks under various ownership wE asphalt and exiting the site. Several measurements were made by distant Total area of off-permit disturbance on private land was measured to 'tie The offeite disturbance on BLM land consists of the other half of the eel hundred feet of dirt haul roads used to access the hilltop pit, a fu recyclable asphalt material (estimated at approximately 8,000 tone), ant sump which was partly filled with a black oily/tarry liquid. Here too tl extensive spillage or leakage of asphalt substances and/or fuels onto the disturbance ie present at the top of the hill toward the south where ~ topsoil scraped and piled on BLM land, presumably in anticipation of expa ~eent here are the king area, minor gestic-lined waste 1 around the batch i ante or additives, , of extensive fill feet of a natural resent there. The I e observed loading wheel .and pacing J 2.7 acres. _~ -. alt plant, several II 1 tank, a pile of an unlined earthen re was evidence of ground. Additional sere ie an area of ' ling the pit to the J