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• III III III IIIIIIIIII • (ENGINEERS' COMMENTS) <br />~„ . <br />r„ CASTLE CONCRETE COMPANY <br />Application No. 77-211 <br />Pikeview Ouarr <br />Information Furnished Per Staff Questions {Letter of April 12, 1979): <br />A. MINING PLAN <br />Question 111: What quantity of topsoil will be salvaged from the yet <br />unaffected areas of the mine? <br />Comment: Castle Concrete Company is hoping to salvage at least 25,000 <br />cubic yards of topsoil from the remaining (moderately disturbed) areas of <br />the mine. The "unaffected" area is 53 acres of land which has been only <br />moderately disturbed. <br />Question 112: What quantity of topsoil, if any, was salvaged from areas <br />already affected by mining and where has this soil been stockpiled? <br />Comment: The "native" topsoil is comparatively thin. Castle Concrete <br />has done little work in areas which were not already affected prior to <br />Castle's acquisition of the property. What little topsoil that has been <br />removed was mixed with the material used in building one of the interior <br />mining roads. This "topsoil" contained a considerable quantity of large <br />cobbles and was determined unsuitable for topsoil cover. <br />Question 113: Identify the areas of the mine affected since July 1, 1976, as <br />this is the area of already affected land that will be included in the permit. <br />Comment: Mining operations have continued since July 1, 1976, in that area <br />previously described as the 134 acres of previously disturbed land. Only <br />134 acres of land will be disturbed by the mining operation and only 134 <br />acres of land should be included in the mining permit. There is approximately <br />53 acres of land within the 134 acres which has been only moderately disturbed; <br />the remaining 81 acres have been totally denuded for many years by prior <br />extractors. <br />Question 114: A mining timetable that clearly indicates when each Cract <br />will be mined and the estimated duration of mining in each tract. <br />Comment: We have attached a Revised Mining Timetable based upon the <br />134 acres of disturbed land being divided into 4 tracts. (See Attachment <br />No. 3) The revised timetable and duration in each tract is based upon the <br />1 <br />