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(Page 2) • <br />MINE ID ,~ OR PROSPECTING ID ~' M-87-026 <br />INSPECTION DATE 04/19/94 INSPECTOR'S INITIALS RCO <br />OBSERVATIONS <br />This inspection was performed by the Division as a follow up to an inspection on 11/04/93. <br />Operator was contacted about this inspection but was unable to be present. there has beenn <br />considerable work done by the operator on cleaning up and grading the site, on both current <br />and pre-law disturbance. This work will be accounted for in the new bond calculations, which <br />when prepared, will be sent to the operator for review. <br />Items noted during inspection included: <br />Signs and markers were present (though one digit of the permit number on the sign should be <br />corrected). <br />The extensive pre-law waste rock piles have been pushed into the deep vertical pit on the <br />west side. It now has 1:1 aides, ie half the size, and land around the pit has been rough <br />graded. There ie still some ponding of water in the pit. The old load out along the road <br />at the west end is removed too. There is still more material on site to finish closing the <br />pit and reclaiming, but this start is a very good faith effort. <br />The only equipment on site now is a wheel loader, the only structure ie an earth load out in <br />the new pit's processing area. <br />There are much fewer stockpiles of product on the site now. The topsoil and overburden piles <br />are piled in separate areas, both above the new pit's highwall and to the south of the new <br />pit. Topsoil piles appear stable, with no slumping or erosion visible onto adjoining areas. <br />There was no evidence of offaite damage by mining operations nor by sedimentation from <br />(stormwater) runoff. <br />There is an old sediment pond approximately 1000 feet downstream (SW) of the permit area. <br />Operator stated that this was constructed some time ago to serve to contain runoff water from <br />the small watershed that drain into it and the many diggings and pits too. It is heavily <br />vegetated and has a rock face on the downstream side, it is 150 feet long, 6 feet high, has <br />a 4 foot freeboard below the spillway on one end, and shows evidence of ponding water in an <br />area of about one-half acre. There was no water flowing nor impounded at this time. There <br />was no evidence of gullying below this structure. This structure appears to have been <br />adequately-sized to serve this hillside for some time, and appears stable enough to continue <br />to do so. Operator stated that the owner of the land on which the dam is located wishes for <br />the dam to remain. <br />Site was clean. No problems were noted during this inspection. <br />I & E Contact Address <br />NAME Bill Tezak <br />OPERATOR Colorado Quarries <br />STREET 270 S 15th St <br />CITY/STATE/ZIPCanon City CO 81212 <br />cc: Jim Stevens/DMG <br />^ CE <br />^ BL <br />^ FS <br />^ HW <br />^ HMWMD (CH) <br />^ SE <br />^ WQCD (CH) <br />^ OTHER <br />