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The Elk Creek topsoil pile itself contains several lines of silt fence and straw wattles. There <br />is no apparent erosion. There were a couple large flowering thistle on the pile. <br />At the outlet of the upper Elk Creek culvert (just below the topsoil pile) there were straw <br />bales, silt fence and coarse rip rap that have effectively prevented off-site impact. <br />The C-pond access road (know locally as "K-Mart Flats") is vegetated and shows no <br />evidence of off-site impact. <br />The area at the entrance to the mine was inspected. There, a ditch from the entrance area <br />slope contains a series of check dams and straw bales to allow settling from that slope <br />before the water enters the culvert underneath the town of Somerset. Pond A at the <br />entrance to the mine eliminated the other SAE that had been listed in the permit. <br />The conveyer SAE -the area beneath the conveyer to the Sanborn Creek mine, looked <br />fine. This SAE will be affected within several months when the Sanbord Creek mine is <br />closed and mining moved to the Elk Creek mine. <br />The de-gas pads were visited. The big 5-well pad -the first pad cleared -showed grass <br />growth. The down-hill side of that SAE is equipped with straw bales to filter run-off. <br />The permit was reviewed for demonstrations for the SAE's visited. The older SAE's are <br />simply described in the permit, as that is all that was required when these were initially <br />permitted. These include the sites in Hubbard and Bear Creeks. Discussion will proceed on <br />how to accommodate these areas in the permit. <br />