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I'1.-iF~-~,J ~--'9U 15:41 tL~: !!i II1 IIC L~ ~rii ~u r~~_ l_ <br />iNSP£CTION REPORT <br />February 21-22, 1990 <br />Meat £lk Coal Co <br />°0 Box 591 <br />~omereet, Colorado <br />*ft Gunnison pl mine <br />Ground and Weather Conditions st the Mine during the Inspection; <br />Snov covered with three to six inches w![h melt occurring in the <br />afternoon; cool, overcast and clearing during the day <br />Personnel Prceent During the TnepecCion; <br />Denote Conn: West Elk Cnat Co <br />Kathleen Welt; West Elk Coal Co <br />Cathy Begay: Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Division (r,LMRp) <br />.Leff Clapton: CLMRD <br />Cary Fritz: OSM, Albuquerque Field Office, p744 <br />ENFORCEMENT ACTION <br />Ten pay Nocice(TDN) p 90-02~2GG'l, violation 1 of l was issued to the <br />State of Colorado following this inspection 6ecauae of the operators <br />failure to maintain drainage aybteme that divert surface water runoff <br />from the area above the fill (coal ryroceesing waste) into stabilized <br />diversion channels, There were three different areas noted during <br />the inspection ChaC were not drainfng Into the diversions built <br />around the perimeter of the pile: 1. the interface hetveen the 7~ <br />foot ra9oiled bench berm end the waste; 2. lower section of the lit <br />year diversion (inside bar ditch) next to the haul road access point <br />Into the active waste pile; 3. Sylvester Gulch road, <br />A neu section has been opened on the upper side, immediately ad 7aeent <br />to the existing pile of the existing waste disposal area on the lAVeT <br />bench for additional waste disposal. During Chis interim the <br />opexatoi Ss reRtricted to a relatively smell area for disposal. They <br />intend to fill in the gap between the existing pile and vlrRin ground <br />eventually bringing the waste up level with the grade of the outer <br />pile. From there, they will bring up the whole pits on horizontal <br />lifts end put in benches aC levels approved to their dg sign, The <br />lower p11a hoe been brought up beyond the first bench, with the outer <br />slopes on the bench graded, topsoil.ed end reclaimed. The cop of the <br />bench, a 70 foot wide surface is graded slightly to [he inside ell <br />the slang the widr.8 of the bench and is then graded tb drain that <br />runoff back from the center of the outer perimeter towards the <br />southern end of the pile whore it ie to be directed Into the lO0 year <br />diversions. Ic has been Rraded Cn drain, recoiled with a subsoil <br />I ~L I l! is ~t~j-`v~' 10h <br />Page 1 <br />p75~ P~J' <br />IIIIII~II~I <br />999 <br />