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This was a partial inspection conducted by Jim Burnell of CDMG on 12 and 13 July, 2000. The mine site was quiet. I encountered Chris Miller, who is employed by P&M Coal for water sampling and other miscellaneous activities. He was installing fence below Center Ridge pond. The site was very dry. The weather was hot and dry. Signs & Markers: Identification signs were in the proper places and correct. A couple markers caused confusion along the lower ponds of the West Ridge drainage reconstruction. A flexible orange mazker at Pond #20 (I believe that is the proper number) signifies "permit boundary" adjacent to the pond. Several ponds upstream, a similar marker indicates "buffer zone." I didn't know if these were actual signs or if there were present for some other purpose. Roads: The road to the loadout ponds was in good condition. The main road at the "super curve" was in good condition. The drainage control undertaken several yeazs ago has worked well -the "ditch crossing" has allayed the washout problem. Hr•droloeic Balance: At the loadout ponds, ponds #4 was just wet, pond #3 contained several feet of water, but was not dischazging; pond #2 was dry; pond #1 was muddy with no standing water. None of these ponds appeaz to require cleaning at this time. The Center Ridge pond was dischazging about 50 gpm of clear water. The spoils springs at the West Ridge pond were conning relatively slowly -estimated at 3-4 gpm into the pond. The spoils spring area was marshy. The pond itself was discharging approximately 40 gpm clear water. The large spoils spring (NPDES discharge point) was flowing at about 150 gpm. The Moffat Pond level was 4 feet below the emergency spillway. The Moffat spoils springs area (between the pond and the reclaimed mine area) was marshy, but did not contain a lot of water. There was no discharge from the pond through the culvert, but there was a trickle flowing down the channel towazd Trout Creek. A sediment delta has developed from the inlet of the spoils springs into the pond. The Center Ridge spoils springs that flow into Moffat Pond were running about 8 gpm. All the springs but one were dry. The lowermost ponds in the West Ridge drainage reconstruction were all stmcturally sound with no noticeable erosion. Ponds 21, 20, 19, 18, and 17 held very little water. The erosion that had affected the lowermost dams in the past has been repaired effectively. Several ponds in the middle (I lost count of the numbers) contained a good bit of water. The topmost 6 ponds have filled in as designed, and hold no water. The reconstructed drainages in the Moffat azea all appeared to be stable, although there was some erosion uphill from the inlet of the pond itself. There is also erosion along the lower end of the Moffat Area, in the vicinity of the pond. Support facilities: All was quiet at the facilities area and everything was in order.