APPCOR12454

• Permit No: C1984065
• IBM Index Class Name: Application Correspondence
• Doc Date: 3/23/1984
• Doc Name: COMPLETENESS REVIEW MEMO
• From: ROY COX
• To: JIM HERRON
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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Richard D. Lamm
Governor

DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
Devitl H. Getches, Executive Director
MINED LAND RECLAMATION DIVISION
DAVID C. SHELTON, Director
DATE: March 23, 1984
T0: Jtm Herron ,,/
FROM: Roy L. Cox ~"'
RE: Completeness Review for Storm King Mines', Coal Ridge #1 Mine,
File No. C-084-065
The geology, ground water hydrology, and alluvial valley floor sections in the
Coal Ridge #1 Mine permit application are complete 1n that they minimally
address the informational requirements. The application, however, lacks
substance such as complete designs for facilities, calculations, detailed
analyses, and detailed assessments of mining impacts. This lack of substance
results in mayor inadequacies throughout the permit application. Some of
these Inadequacies I have identified during th15 preliminary review follow.
Geoloav - Rules 2.04.5 and 2.04.7
Core holes used for the chemical analyses are not identified on the laboratory
analyses sheet in Appendix 3.3-1 and are not located on the geologic map.
A detailed geologic map and cross-sections are needed for the mine's surface
facilities, rail line, loadout, and refuse disposal area. Detailed
descriptions are also needed for the surficlal deposits in these areas.
Hydrology Description: Ground Water - Rules 2.04.5 and 2.04.7(1)
The baseline hydrology is inadequate for the streams, springs, irrigation
ditches, colluvlal aquifers and alluvial aquifers within the surface
facilities area, loadout, rail line, and the coal-processing waste disposal
site. Full baseline collection should continue until a year's data has been
collected. The applicant should then plot and analyze the baseline data and
should describe the seasonal fluctuations to the water qualities and
quantities of both surface and ground waters.
Protection of the Hydrologic Balance: Ground Water - Rule 2.05.6(3)
The permit application should contain detailed analyses of the hydrologic
impacts of the coal processing waste disposal pile, coal preparation plant
water handling facilities for the mine, slurry pipeline, interim loadout
facilities 1n Glenwood Springs, mine site rail loadout, rail line, disposal
areas for waste rock from mine development, open coal stockpiles, and mining
on recharge areas of the coals and overlying aquifer. The inadequacy in the
probably hydrology consequence of mining section in the
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