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• borrow areas, and spillway for sites located down drainage of mining activities), haul roads, access <br />roads, mining area (includes box cut spoil and highwall reduction area, spoil and waste stockpile areas, <br />coal stockpile area, office and shop area, explosive storage area, and diversion ditchesl. Soil will be <br />removed from all cut and fill slopes. No soil will be salvaged from the light use roads utilized for <br />environmental monitoring or power line corridors, except where cut and fills are required. Prior to <br />topsoil removal, trees and shrubs will be mechanically chipped/mulched and incorporated with the <br />topsoil during salvage to help soil organic matter levels. Trees that are too large for chipping will be <br />removed and combined with the overburden. Occasionally, some vegetation will be transported to final <br />graded slopes and placed in either brush piles or shrub islands throughout the reclamation. To prevent <br />unnecessary contamination and loss due to sloughing, soil shall be salvaged a minimum of 5 to 15 feet <br />from the edge of a road, end of a pit, embankment, ditch, cut slope, and toe of fill. Soil shall also be <br />salvaged up to 100 feet beyond the active pit to protect the soil resource from being contaminated <br />during blasting, benching, drilling, and other mining activities. Soil will typically be salvaged about <br />500 to 750 feet in advance of the active pit during late summer and early fall to provide an adequate <br />buffer during the winter months. <br />Soil will be removed by using self-loading scrapers, push scrapers, or other rubber tired equipment. A <br />• dozer or road grader will also be used when needed to assist scraper loading, to facilitate maximum <br />soil recovery, and to help build and shape soil stockpiles. Where soil exists on a steep slope and <br />where there is enough room for scrapers to maneuver at the bottom of that slope, soil will be removed <br />by being pushed downhill with a dozer, picked up with scrapers, then stockpiled or transferred directly <br />to final graded areas. In other steep slope situations, soil removed by dozers will be pushed outside of <br />the soil disturbance area and stored in approved stockpiles at the bottom of that slope. Lastly, in final <br />pit highwall reduction and first pit boxcut spoil areas, along Haul Road A and at pond construction <br />sites, soil removed by dozers will be pushed outside the soil disturbance area and stored temporarily <br />(less than one year) in furrows. This soil will either be respread over adjacent final graded slopes or <br />will be transported to an approved stockpile site. <br />A one-lift soil handling operation will be used for all soil map units within the projected disturbance <br />area. This method of soil removal is desirable because the soils are either shallow (Splitrol, moderately <br />deep IWinevadal, or deep ICoutis and Silasl, and <br />• <br />MR-19 19 Revised 2/03 <br />