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• III. COMMENTS - COMPLIANCE <br />Below are comments on the inspection. The comments include discussion of <br />observations made during the inspection. Comments also describe any enforcement <br />actions taken during the inspection and the facts or evidence supporting the <br />enforcement action. <br />This was a complete inspection conducted by Tom Kaldenbach of the Colorado Division <br />of Minerals and Geology. No one else was present during the field portion of the <br />inspection. Jay James of Montgomery Watson represented the operator during the <br />records check. The ground was drying from rain the day before. The entrance <br />gates to the loadout were locked. The loadout has not operated for several years. <br />AVAILABILITY OF RECORDS <br />All required records were available at the Montgomery Watson office in St~aamboat <br />Springs. The records checklist is attached. <br />SIGNS AND MLRKF.RS <br />Mine entrance signs, stream buffer signs and topsoil markers were properly <br />displayed. Perimeter boundary markers are needed on the north side of the=_ rail <br />loop, west of culverts RRC-17A,B,and C. Two markers would be sufficient <br />ROADS <br />The Tie-across Haul Road is in good shape. The access road in the office area and <br />Haul Roads 1 and 2 are in good condition. <br />• HYDROLOGIC BALANCE <br />Ditches - The following ditches appeared to have design capacity: the perimeter <br />ditch and collection ditches in the truck loop area, ditch 7, and the ditches <br />beneath the conveyor where the sump pump drains. The westernmost 75 feet cif Ditch 9 <br />needs to be reshaped where winter snowplowing pushed material into it. It remains <br />capable of functioning. <br />Culverts - Culverts beneath the conveyor (LFC-3, 4, and 5) were in good repair at <br />their inlet and outlet ends and were clear. Culverts LFC-1 and LFC-9 are clear and <br />display no scouring at either end. <br />Sediment Control Ponder - The water level in the truck loop pond (Pond 1) caas <br />approximately six inches below the top of the drop inlet. Water was about: 3 feet <br />deep in the rail loop pond. Both ponds' inslopes, outslopes, and embankments appear <br />stable, and were not Bullied. Sediment markers were in place. <br />SAES <br />The office/parking lot/leach field SAE is in good shape. The substation SAE needs <br />vegetation growing to stop gullying that is starting immediately up and downstream <br />from the silt fence. Past seeding efforts have been unsuccessful. <br />• <br />Page 3 <br />