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r <br />Meeting: Discussion of geologic and hydrologic issues of [he Fish Cre~•k <br />Mine <br />Date: August 29, 1980 <br />Place: Office of Surface Mining, Denver <br />Par[ici.pants: Tim Jarvis (P b M Coal Company); Roy Cox (Colorado Mined Land <br />Reclamation); Marlene Berg, .terry Gavotte, and Tom Pike (OS?I); <br />and Maurice Lutkin, Dave McWhorter, and Don Doeh ri n,g (lJa ter, <br />lJaste and Land, Ltd). <br />1. The Fish Creek Pline is a proposed underground mine located approximately <br />six miles north of Oak Creek, Colorado. It is situated one mile northwest of <br />the Edna Mine -Trout Creek Mine area. The Hdna Mine is a surface mine <br />presently in operation. The Trout Creek Mine is a proposed underground mine <br />located on [he western edge of the F,dna Mine. The mine and reclamation plan <br />for the Trout Creek Mine was submitted to OSM January 1979. Its status is <br />presently being evaluated by P fi T1. <br />2. P 6 P1 Coal Company plans to submit the Fish Creek `line Plan during Che <br />Summer of 1981. <br />3. Trout Creek is located one mile to the east of the Fish Creek Mine area. <br />Foidel Creek and Middle Creek run through the southeast quarter of the mine <br />area, while Fish Creek runs through the western half of this area. <br />4. A fault trends northeast through the cistern part of the Fish Creek area. <br />Mining of the LJadge Coal Seam will be to the west of the fault. P 6 FI will <br />gain access to the coal via a 180 foot pit east of. the fault. <br />5. A soil survey (at approximately on Order Z) was conducted during the <br />Summer of 1980 on 80 acres of land [hat will be disturbed. <br />6. Chemical overburden data from six cores were submitted at the meeting. <br />Four of the cores were taken from the Edna ?fine -Trout Creek Mine area. <br />Strata from at leas[ 50 feet above the coal to the firs[ aquifer below the <br />lowest coal seam to be mined, were sampled. The remaining cores, WIJLL-15 and <br />WWLL-20 were taken west of the fault in the Pish Creek Mine area. Roof and <br />floor samples were taken from both cores. <br />7. There will be two areas of overburden disturbance in the Fish Creek area. <br />i) A 180 foot pie east of the fault, used [o gain access to the coal and, <br />ii) a shat[ for an air-v en[ in the western part of the mine area. <br />