INSPEC30504 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

III. COMMENTS -COMPLIANCE Below are comments on the inspection. The comments include discussion of observations made during the inspection, Comments also describe any enforcement actions taken during the inspection and the facts or evidence supporting the enforcement action. This was a partial inspection of the Seneca II Mine conducted on October 5, 2006 by Mike Boulay of the DMG. Dermis Jones of Seneca Coal Company (SCC) was present during the entire inspection. Weather conditions were cloudy, windy, and cool. Ground conditions were damp. There was no activity at the mine site during the inspection. Hydrologic Balance Sedimentation Ponds 002, 003, and the Truck Wash supply and settling ponds were inspected. All of these ponds were full and dischazging a small amount of clear water with exception of the Truck Wash settling pond. Inlets, embankments, and dischazge structures at these pond locations appeazed to be stable and functioning properly. Backfilling and Grading During the previous inspection (see inspection report dated September 18, 2006), one significant gully was identified in the pre-law lands azea. This gully was not previously identified during the Phase I bond release inspection conducted in August but was noted in the September inspection. The gully is in the location of what appeazs to be the remnants of an old road located in the Wadge coal removal azea to the northeast and above the PM-5 drainage. The gully eroded into the coal outcrop and was previously measured to be approximately 450 feet long by approximately 19 feet wide. The gully was repaired since the time of the last inspection. Equipment was used to regrade and stabilize the former road location and backfill the gully. However a portion of the gully that extends away from the former road location to the west towazd the PM-5 drainage was not repaired. The DRMS recommends that this section of the gully be hand repaired to stabilize the erosion. Please ensure that the entire regraded azea including the hand repair azea is re-seeded. Photographs of the portion of the gully that extends away from the recent repaired azea aze shown on the following page of this report. Support Facilities The two bone yazds and the shop/facilities azea were inspected. Most of the scrap materials have been removed from the old boneyazd. The new boneyazd still has most of the scrap material remaining on-site. A large amount oftree-planting waste/trash is stockpiled at the site. The road surface azound the facilities area was heavily rutted in some azeas. Drainage away from the shop/facilities azea was adequate. Road scrapings are stockpiled on the southwest side of the facilities above the ditch leading to Pond 003. Please continue to maintain this azea to ensure that road scrapings are not placed in the ditch.