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: -~ <br />New Horizon 8/94 page 2 <br />Coal Company redistributed the topsoil and revegetated. <br />The active mine is.fairly compact and neatly organized. One small problem <br />observed wasp rifling on the insiope of pond' 7. This was caused by overflow <br />from the water truck filling station. We recommended to WFC to construct a <br />riprap channel from the station to the pond to' prevent a violation from <br />develbpirig. The initial cut spoils were placed immediately behind the cut. <br />These spoils"are planned to be trucked to the final .pit and used for backfill. The <br />WFC representative was hopeful that the final cut can be blended without the <br />initial cut spoils The ihitial'cut spoils would then be graded in place. The <br />permit would have to be revised to reflect this practice: AOC would have to be <br />consiii'ered ar~d evaluated for this practice to be approvCd. <br />The rdplaced topsoil on the old Peabody Coal Company workings is either non- <br />existent`or very thin. In the case of the knob mentioned earlier, topsoil has <br />been spread bn tfie top, but not omttie sides. At t1~e time Peabody Coal <br />Company redisturbed~tHe area, the top material was~mine spoil. There are <br />many pre-law disturbed'areas in and arouhd the permit area. We noticed during <br />the permit review that parts of these pre-laVv spoils are„permitted. The operator <br />should document; for its sake, the pre=law spoils and other pre-law disturbed <br />areas. <br />