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• (Page 2) • MINE ID # OR PROSPECTING ID # INSPfiCTION DATE 6 3 96 M-94-117 INSPECTOR'S INITIALS ACS OBSERVATIONS This inspection was conducted in response to an anonymous telephone complaint that was left on the Division's voice mail system during the evening of 6/1/96. Byron LeBlanc, of COM, Inc. was on-site at the time of this inspection. Land application of Hazel-A water was occurring at the time of this inspection. Mr. LeBlanc statEad that the steady head tanks in the mill had been completely flushed-out. The operation approved in technical revision TR-001 to pump tailing from the pond to the mill for reprocessing has been terminated. Very little tailing had been reprocessed. The t:wo pumps needed to operate the spray evaporation system in the pond had been removed on 6/1/'.)6. Mr. LeBlanc stated that replacement pumps had been ordered. See PB #1 on the last page of this report. The t:wo sump pumps located outby of the bulkhead in the Hazel-A adit were not operating at the time of this inspection. The sump behind the coffer dam and the sump outby of the coffer dam had been flooded by a combination of leakage through the bulkhead and ground water inflows to the Hazel-A adit that were occurring outby of the bulkhead. Ae a result, a discharge of water was occurring from the Hazel-A adit at an estimated rate of 2 to 4 gallons per minute. The pH of the discharge was measured to be 7.12. The discharge was streaming across the road located outside the Hazel-A portal, and flowing into Cash Gulch. Mr. LeBlanc was instructed to conduct an investigation into why there was no power to the sump pumps, restore power to the pampa as soon as possible, terminate the discharge as soon as possible, and :report to the Division when these tasks were completed. Mr. LeBlanc contacted the Division by telephone on the morning of 6/4/96 and reported that the green power cable running from the mill building to the Hazel-A ad it had been severed. Once this was discovered, the cable was repaired and the sump pumps were reactivated, quickly ending the discharge. Since the problem has been corrected, no PB is assigned to this incident.