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MINING PLAN <br /> The remoteness of the site and the character of the <br /> neighborhood lends itself well to a mining operation as <br /> the vicinity map shows. To the West is gravel mining at <br /> present and land that is owned by persons in the gravel <br /> business or leased to the gravel business. To the South <br /> is the Ray D. Nixon Power Plant and to the East is vacant <br /> land owned by the party who traded for the property in this <br /> application. The swap was for Broderick & Gibbons mined <br /> out land to be developed into a residential subdivision. <br /> In case after case gravel mining is just one use of the <br /> land in a sequence of uses and has little permanent effect. <br /> In addition to the East is I-25 and the sewer plant for the <br /> tocan of Fountain. To the North is a commercial area in- <br /> cluding a large truck stop. <br /> The sand and gravel in this upland deposit is very <br />• pocketed. It is non-existent in places or covered with so <br /> much overburden compared to the gravel that it will not be <br /> economically feasible to mine. In other locations the OB/ <br /> S&G ratio is just the opposite. In general the gravel is <br /> thicker on the southerly end of the property and has less <br />overburden to be stripped, thus the mining will begin here <br />and proceed to the North and the more marginal deposits. <br />Phase I (40 acres) in the S.W. corner of the property will <br />be stripped of the top 5" of soil. This soil will be stock- <br />piled for use in reclamation. The overburden will be dozed <br />and scraped off the gravel to the lower bench and to the side <br />slopes. This will be the overburden's permanent location ex- <br />cept for fine grading. The gravel will be crushed and screened <br />for base course and for plant mix asphalt on site then trucked <br />to the jobs located in the area. <br />Due to the remote location of the mine there will be little <br />visual effect of lowering this flat top mesa some 25' to 50'. <br />Sound levels will not effect anyone, nor will night security <br />lights. City water available on site will control the dust <br />on the haul roads and in the crushing operation. No ground <br />water exists above the Pierre shale which this mineable <br />