PERMFILE44168

• Permit No: M2000049
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 6/21/2000
• Doc Name: GRAVEL PIT PERMIT APPLICATION
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

• Seeding will occur during late fall or early spring (from about October 31 to April 1) in
order to take advantage of available soil moisture conditions during the spring. The
• applicant holds sufficient water rights within the Gurley Ditch to provide irrigation to all
areas and phases of the gravel operation to enhance the revegetation effort if necessary.
80/20 Nitrogen/Phosphate fertilizer will be applied at the time of seeding at the rate of 200
ponds per acre and worked into the soil during the seed bed preparation.
The pit excavation will leave nearly vertical faces of approximately 32' in height, if the pit is
mined to planned depth, during advance. These slopes will be reduced to 4h:ly before the
application of topsoil or cover material. This slope reduction will be accomplished by placing
refuse material along the neazly vertical face of the side walls of the pit, providing an acceptable
slope that will require no ripping before final reclamation. The advancing face will be excavated
to a 4h:ly slope as it nears the disturbance line. The operator will take care not to encroach on [he
disturbance line during slope reduction. In Phase I, a berm will be developed along the southern
and western exposure of the pit during mining, this berm will remain in place and will be covered
with topsoil or cover material a[ final reclamation.
Phase I will expose a maximum advancing face of 1200 feet, Phase II will expose a maximum
advancing face of 1495 feet and Phase III will expose a maximum advancing face of 595 feet.
Phase I will a expose a pit floor area of 25.3 acres, Phase II will expose a pit floor area of 32.0
acres and Phase III will expose a pit floor azea of 2.0 acres.
Phase I will expose an area for facilities and processing of 3.2 acres, Phase II will expose an area
for facilities and processing of 3.8 acres and Phase III will expose an area for facilities and
processing of 3.8 acres.
The loosely compacted side slopes and sandstone floor of the pits should require no ripping before
final reclamation. The final slope of each pit will be loosened by the front-end loader and then
reshaped before final reclamation.
The access road and ditch crossings to Phase I and Phase III serve as entry onto the private land of
the gravel pit Owner/Operator and will remain upon completion of the operation.
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Other reclamation tasks will include the removal of the semi portable truck scales and the removal
of the portable screening/crushing plant, the portable storage shed, the portable dieseUelectric
generator set, the portable fuel tank and the portable sanitation facility.
The operator is aware that grazing may not occur on the acreage in reclamation without prior
authorization from the Division, in consultation with the local Soil Conservation District.
'These recorded rights can be found in Exhibit N -Legal Right to Enter and they are
restated in Exhibit G -Water Information.
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