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JEROME F. GAMBA P.E.-L.S. MINING&GEOLOGICAL <br /> CONSULTING ENGINEER ENGINEERING <br /> P.O. Box 1458 <br /> Glenwood Springs, oFFICF ±: ¢�ED <br /> Colorado 81601 HOME r' tl'3` <br /> J KLze, .63 <br /> Mined Land Reclamation Board 25 July 1983 <br /> Department of Natural Resources <br /> Mined Land Reclamation Division MI�lf_D LAi!1 RECLAMATION <br /> 423 Centennial Building Colo. Dept. of Natural Resources <br /> 1313 Sherman Street <br /> Denver, Colorado , 80203 <br /> Re : Zemlock and Son , Inc . , Permit No . 81-207 (Blue Pit) <br /> Subject : Amendment of permit . <br /> Gentlemen : <br /> Enclosed are documents in application for the amendment of permit <br /> of Permit No . 81-207 in the name of Zemlock and Son , Inc . , of <br /> Glenwood Springs , Colorado . <br /> This amendment is requested to increase the total disturbed area <br /> from 21 . 5 acres to 31 . 5 acres and to modify the seed mixture for <br /> revegetation . <br /> The amendment was made necessary when considerably more overburden <br /> and topsoil was found in some areas of the oit than originally <br /> anticipated . The temporary stockpiling of this material has <br /> consumed mine area required to lower the pit floor to its ultimate <br /> final level and configuration . The increased area requested in the <br /> amendment will facilitate the development of some area of final <br /> pit floor and sideslope which can then be reclaimed with excess <br /> overburden and topsoil . This will then allow For the systematic <br /> face advance and subsequent final surface reclamation . <br /> It was determined advisable to modify the seed mixture after it <br /> was lerttrned that the crown vetch , which was specified by the Soil <br /> ConseAtion Service , is best suited for acid soils . It does not <br /> do well in basic soils common to much of western Colorado and <br /> present at the Blue Pit . Local commercial seed suppliers <br /> recommend that Sweet clover be substituted for the crown vetch , <br /> and we herewith request this modification . <br /> The seed mixture reported in the 1983 annual report was usect For <br /> temporary stabilization of topsoil stockpiles because it was <br /> immediately available from local suppliers . Good cover growth <br /> is developing, in the areas that it was planted , however , the <br /> modified seed mixture will be used in the Fu Lire if approved . <br /> Respectfully , _ <br /> erfo . e P`amba ' <br />