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• (Page 2) • <br />MINE ID # OR PROSPECTING ID # M-86-002 <br />INSPECTION DATE 3-11-98 INSPECTOR'S INITIALS SSS <br />This was a routine monitoring inspection of the Whitewater Quarry. The site is permitted to <br />disturb 8.4 acres, though the legal description in the application states 9.289 acres. The <br />operator has indicated a desire to revise the reclamation permit to clarify the intent for <br />gravel extraction above the sandstone deposit prior to quarrying the sandstone. The operator <br />ie encouraged to clarify the pexmit area legal description in that revision application. <br />Annual reports for this site indicate that it has been inactive since 1994. The operator <br />must submit a request for temporary cessation as required by Rule 1.13 for sites that are <br />inactive for 180 days or more, or document activity that has occurred in the last 180 days. <br />The operator indicated that the size of the phased disturbance is too restrictive too allow <br />for gravel extraction which moves much faster than the sandstone. The operator indicated <br />that he would submit a revision to change the phased requirement. He understood that this <br />would change the reclamation cost liability. <br />There was not a straw bale filter dike at the lower end of the site as the permit requires. <br />The operator indicated that the dike was torn up by the cattle that free range around the <br />site. He indicated that a depression was constructed in the quarry area which intercepts any <br />flows from affected areas and acts as a settling basin for the minimal runoff observed at <br />this site. The operator will also need to include this change into the approved permit <br />through the revision process. <br />The jog in the northwest corner of the permit boundary is not clearly marked on the ground <br />and is not shown on the operator's annual report maps. The operator needs to place <br />additional permit boundary markers at this location and must submit the correct annual report <br />map in the future. <br />I ~ E Contact Address <br />NAME Rudi Fontanari <br />OPERATOR Western Slope Flagstone <br />STREET 3316 E 3!4 Road - Route 1 <br />CITY/STATE/ZIP 1;f on, o~orado Bls 0 <br />cc: Tom Gillis, DMG <br />^ CE <br />^ BL <br />^ FS <br />^ HW <br />^ HMWMD (CH) <br />^ SE <br />^ WQCD (CH) <br />^ OTHER <br />