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III. COMMENTS -COMPLIANCE <br />Below are comments on the inspection. The comments include discussion of observations <br />made during the inspection. Comments also describe any enforcement actions tpken during <br />the inspection and the facts or evidence supporting the enforcement action. <br />This was a partial inspection conducted by Joe Dudash of the Colorado DMG. No one <br />represented the operator. There was no snow cover at the reclaimed site. There had been sporadic <br />precipitation, rain and snow, in the area two days before. <br />Roads <br />The road up Hubbazd Creek was passable, in spite of the numerous small rocks on the road. Most <br />of the road was dry. The mine site gate was closed and locked. <br />Signs and Markers <br />The mine ID sign was on the gate. Surface disturbance mazkers were up azound the mine site. <br />Hydrology <br />Pond 3, just north of the mine site gate, was dry. The pond spillways were functional. Pond <br />inslopes and outslopes appeared to be stable. Vegetative cover was moderate. Ditch F, leading <br />into pond 3 from the south, had sufficient capacity and was well vegetated. <br />Pond 5, near the base of.the reclaimed slopes, had about one foot of water in it. Spillways were <br />functional and the pond inslopes and outslopes were stable. Ditch A, leading into pond 5 from <br />the north was wet. <br />There was no water coming from the underdrain pipes into Ditch A at the base of the reclaimed <br />slopes. <br />Reclaimed Slones <br />No geotechnical instability or erosional gullying was evident on the reclaimed slopes. The slopes <br />were moderately vegetated. <br />c:\ms97\blueribbon\insp0302 <br />