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• • iii iiiiiiiiniiiiii <br />999 <br />Mid-Continent Resources <br />Limestone Ouam <br />Analysis of Total Access Road liackfill <br />Reclamation Plan <br />Mid-Continent Resources and the Glenwood Springs Resource Area office of the <br />Bureau of Land Management have been discussing BLM suggested revisions to the <br />reclamation plan of the Mid-Continent Resources limestone quarry, located in the SE'.G <br />of Section 36, TSS, Range 89W, approximately two miles north of Glenwood Springs, <br />Colorado. Representatives of Mid-Continent Resources, the Colorado Division of <br />Minerals and Geology (CDMG), and the BLM met on April 29, 1996 to conceptually <br />discuss BLM suggested changes to the reclamation plan. <br />On April 30, 1996, an on-site meeting between Mid-Continent Resources, Savage and <br />Savage, Inc., CDMG, and BLM was held to further discuss the suggested changes to <br />the reclamation plan. During the on-site meeting, Mr. Robert Elderkin of the BLM <br />suggested that the BLM was no longer satisfied with the approved reclamation plan for <br />the quarry site, which proposes grading and backfilling along the tce of the quarry <br />walls, with attendant distribution of available topsoil and reseeding with grasses and <br />fortis, accompanied by planting of shrubs and trees. The BLM was now requesting that <br />the quarry site be left in the post-mining condition with no attendant reclamation, and <br />that Mid-Continent Resources reclaim the roads accessing the site, through complete <br />bacltfilling, grading, and revegetarion. <br />The purpose of this report is to evaluate the feasibility of this proposal. <br />METHODS <br />On May 1, 1996, Michael Savage of Savage and Savage, Inc. and Diane Delaney of <br />Mid-Continent Resources walked the upper and lower access roads. At approximately <br />100 foot intervals along the roads, measurements of the road outslope angle, road <br />width, cut slope angle, and cut slope length were made. At each location an estimate <br />of the fill outslope length was also made. Length of the fill outslope was estimated, <br />since significant natural revegetation has occurred, often covering downslope fill. <br />Road width and cut slope length measurements were made using a 100 foot Kevlar <br />measuring tape. Outslope and cut slope measurements were made using a graduated <br />Silva compass. Location of the points were paced and verified using the odome[er in <br />the field vehicle (Tables I and 2). <br />