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... Co~ari} :i n.r ~. Oil F'raie<i Go~or+oo MLRB Pern,,.l rd-BJ-;::~ December 73 3006 <br />2006 A1teCed Area Status Summary arxf Request ra Raducuon m Anectntl Acreage <br />• 4 0 Area by Area Discussion <br />DescnpUOns of areas provided in the following sections are keyed to Site Disturbance Inventory in <br />the Interim Sde Plan (ISP) The areas are discussed startng with the Parachute properties. followed by <br />•_ discussion of individual areas wdhin the resource block that are consdered reclaimed or otherwise <br />finished. and ending with tliscussrons of on•site and off site access roads. The roads discussed m this <br />~~ submittal are proposed to be designated as permanent most-mining land use features <br />The 'resource block' rs referred to in some of the earlier permit correspondence, and rt refers to <br />_ the contiguous 6.778 acre property approximately 15 mites north of Parachute whx;h includes the oil <br />shale resource where the mining would lake place <br />4 1 Parachute Properties Land Use Clarification <br />4 1 1 Intake Site (ISP Area 1) <br />This area wnsists of 18 acres adtoining the Colorado Rrver. The site location and <br />property boundaries are shown on Exhibit F•1 For reference, the original topography is <br />presented in Exhibd F-5. and the `as-budC conditions are shown m Exhibits F-6 and F-7 <br />In accordance wdh the original permd application. and to retain the possibility of <br />eventually returning this area to agricultural use (grazing). the topsoil was stepped and stockpiled <br />~n 1981 Planned development of this area would occupy nearly the entire permitted area to <br />accommodate the two large sedimentation basins and associated pumping plant needed to <br />capture sediment Irom river water as the first step in treating the water for plant feed water The <br />• urge pumping plant which would lift the treated water 2,300 vertcal feet and 13 miles north to <br />P,~iddle Fork Dam has yet to be constructed, but will occupy the western edge of the sde A large <br />intake structure in the Colorado was designed to allow pumping of as much as 13.000 gpm and a <br />sustained water feed rate of approximately 8.000 gpm <br />In 1983 the "m river- portions of this facility were constructed. consistent wRh a US Army <br />Corps of Engineers 404 permit covering construction of the temporary cofferdam in the river <br />later in 1986 the land-ward earthwork and burred piping for the large sed~menlalion basins were <br />installed, stilt holding to the design capacdy tlescnbed above. The current configuration of this <br />area is presented on Figure 1 below and in Exhibits F-6 and F•7 in Appendix A. <br />• <br />Figure 1 - Rrver Intake Site <br />Rover intake site pewee iooxmp NW from across COiOrado Rver snovnng filnOUette of mx!•mer intake erM <br />{win setldnematwn basme on snore Underproun0 fAnnedmg pipelines between hASrrn are na visible in this <br />pholoprapn Onsnore concrete wet well. connectee to intake slructwe :n the river, is at canter or pwturo <br />4 <br />