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111. COMMENTS -COMPLIANCE <br />Below are comments on the inspection. The comments include discussion.of observations made <br />during the inspection. Comments also describe any enforcement actions-taken during the inspection <br />and the facts or evidence supporting the enforcement action. . <br />This aerial inspection was flown on Mazch 2, 2005 and the digital images were reviewed on Mazch 7, <br />2005. There were no compliance problems observed during the overflight of the mine site. Most of the <br />mine site disturbed azea on the hill slope was covered in snow, whereas most of the flat disturbed area <br />was free of snow. There was no activity on site. <br />Roads <br />Only the upper half of the paved haul road was visible in the digital image and no problems were <br />noted. <br />Facilities <br />There did not appeaz to be any problems with the bridge and the abandoned mine office building. <br />Hydrology <br />There was some standing water in the sediment pond but it did not appeaz to be above the level of the <br />primary spillway. The sediment pond embankment appeazed to be stable. The collection ditch Leading <br />to the north side of the pond appeared tb be functional. <br />The Edwards Portal spring mine water treatment pond appeared to be functioning properly. The water <br />level in the pond was at its usual elevation. The pond embankrent and inslopes appeazed to be stable. <br />The berm between the mine site and the river appeazed to be functional. <br />Reclamation <br />The area of the hill slope that did not have snow cover coincides with the azea where high temperatures <br />and smoke/vapor have been noted by Division personnel in the past. During the last field inspection, a <br />small slide occurred at the base of the hill where the west spring comes out of the hill slope. This small <br />slide, not covered in snow, was visible in the digital images. <br />The hillslope just to the west of the disturbed azea continues to slowly creep down hill. <br />c:/word/beaz3/insp0305 <br />