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Coulson Excavating Company, Inc. - Bonser Gravel Pit <br />Exhibit E -Reclamation Plan <br />e) No brush, roots, sod, frozen material, or other deleterious or unsuitable <br />materials shall be incorporated into the fill. Fill shall not be placed upon <br />frozen material; <br />f) If moisture conditioning is required to meet the moisture content <br />specification, the added moisture shall be worked into the fill by harrowing <br />or other means until a uniform distribution of moisture is obtained; <br />g) Compacted soil liner fill shall be protected from desiccation and from <br />freezing. The finished soil liner will be covered as soon as practicable with <br />water as shown in the reclamation plan. If evidence of desiccation or frost <br />damage is observed, the soil liner will be reworked and retested as <br />necessary to demonstrate that the compaction specification is met, <br />h) Large rocks (greater than 2 inches) will be removed from the soil liner fill. <br />Soil clods larger than 4 inches will be broken up. <br />Construction Procedure <br />A detailed construction procedure is given here to develop the basis for the <br />quality assurance plan (Appendix I) and provide the operators with a step by step <br />schematic plan that will guarantee a quality compacted liner. <br />Scrapers will remove overburden from each area in the concurrent <br />mining/reclamation sequence and place it in the preceding mining area for use in <br />constructing the embankments. Approximately 20,000 cy of overburden will be <br />stockpiled to the north of the pit boundary (within the permit area) for use in <br />completing the 3:1 sloped embankment and adjacent terrace in the northern <br />portion of the cell. Dozers will push the material to construct the embankments <br />at a 3:1 slope. These concurrent reclamation activities will result in a 3:1 sloped <br />embankment along most of the cell perimeter and an adjacent terrace to the <br />north. <br />The final 3:1 sloped embankment along the one remaining cell border will be <br />constructed at the completion of mining and concurrent reclamation for each <br />phase. A dozer will cut and push material from the setback area into the pit to <br />form the 3:1 sloped embankment. The dozer will begin cutting and pushing <br />material at a distance of approximately 25 feet from the pit boundary to ensure <br />there is sufficient material to construct the embankment. The additional distance <br />within the setback area (minimum of 15 feet for the setback of 40 feet) will <br />provide sufficient space for the dozer to maneuver while avoiding disturbance of <br />ground outside the permit area. Once the embankment has been constructed <br />along this cell border (with approximately 3,000-3,500 cy of material for each <br />phase), a continuous 3:1 sloped embankment will result as it joins the other <br />embankment along the rest of the cell perimeter. <br />The next step is to install a drain the/horizontal pumping well that will keep the <br />water table sufficiently low so as to allow installation of the compacted liner lifts <br />on top of a completely dry substrate. The drain the trench will be installed <br />approximately 4 feet above the gravel and weathered shale contact. The trench <br />