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Sunlight - This site is located immediately adjacent to a county road. Steep slopes, an open <br />portal and rotten cribbing pose an immediate safety hazard for the public. We <br />need more than the $5,000 proposed to address this site. <br />GEC - This location is subject to extensive erosion. The East Pit site is not erosionally <br />stable and engineering methods such as extensive riprap are probably needed <br />here. Erosion at the East Pit is causing damage to a private road which accesses <br />a local home and the Southfield Mine fan facility. Some of the gully <br />development poses a significant hazard due to the depth and severity of the <br />gullies. Sediment yield is also occurring to Magpie Creek. We probably need <br />more than the $50,000 originally proposed. Additional money should be devoted <br />to this site. <br />Jewel - This site exhibits exposed highwall areas, and extensive onsite erosion and <br />offsite sediment delivery. While this site is not easily accessed by the public, it <br />does pose a severe safety hazard to those that do access the property. Effective <br />highwall reduction may involve expenditure needs beyond the originally <br />proposed $50,000. <br />Coal Gulch - This site could be further refined, but I don't believe that his location should <br />receive priority consideration. Additional highwall elimination could occur, and <br />such reduction could reduce potential safety problems; however, our previous <br />reclamation work was reasonably successful in this regard. The area exhibits <br />inherently steep topography, and although some scarps do remain, our previous <br />work reasonably blends most of the highwalls. <br />Any further reclamation at this location might be complicated by the presence of <br />a landowner's development at the entrance to the site. There is now a <br />construction material yard located on approximately one acre of ground at the <br />entrance to the site. The landowner has placed fill against the toe of the site <br />sediment pond, blocking the spillway outlets. Harry Ranney informs me that the <br />landowner has also buried a culvert installation provided by DMG during the <br />previous reclamation thus diverting the Coal Gulch drainage around the one acre <br />fill area, into a small culvert under the site entry. This landowner is also placing <br />fill close to the inlet of the a CDOH concrete culvert under Highway 160. The <br />location of this development effectively prevents any improvement of drainage <br />through the Coal Gulch site. In fact, this individual will likely experience flood <br />damage at some point in the future due to his location at the mouth of Coal <br />Gulch. <br />If we chose to do additional highwall work, the material would come from the <br />spoil located between the site and Highway 160. We could probably access the <br />site around and above the construction material yard. Afrer viewing the site, <br />however, I am concerned that such work would be expensive, without achieving <br />much improvement over the work already completed. <br />M:\oss\jrcUevaked sites.doc <br />