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Richard D. Lamm <br />Governor <br />DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES <br />David H. Gelches, Executive Director <br />MINED LAND RECLAMATION DI\ <br />DAVID C. SHELTON, Director <br />DATE: April 24, 1984 <br />T0: Dan Mathews ~\ ~ <br />FROM: Jim Pendleton \1 ~/~-~--~-.~q <br />RE: Crystal Mea s Co rocessing Waste Structure <br />Pursuant to your request, Bob Liddle, Phil Saletta and I visited the site of <br />the Hawk's Nest Mine's Crystal Meadows coal processing waste disposal pile. <br />The coal processing waste pile is located immediately southwest of the <br />confluence of the North Fork of the Gunnison River and Muddy Creek, just below <br />Paonia dam. <br />Our site visitation confirmed the observations you made in your April 11, 1984 <br />site inspection report. Burnett Construction has redisturbed the site, in <br />order to create a storage and processing area for gravel. The gravels are <br />extracted from a Colorado Department of Highways pit south of the Crystal <br />Meadows waste pile site. It is Burnett Construction's intention to crush <br />these gravels for use in nearby Colorado Department of Highways and Federal <br />Highway Department construction projects, during this summer. As you <br />observed, Burnett Construction has removed the topsoil covering approximately <br />the northern 1/3 of the original waste pile. <br />In additions to the observations you made, we observed that at least one of <br />the ground water monitoring wells at the site had been destroyed or covered. <br />It appears that the riprap adjoining the North Fork Channel had been covered <br />with topsoil and subsoil material. Further, the material pushed into the <br />channel appeared to be largely comprised of snow (approximately 9G%). In my <br />opinion addition disturbance to remove this material from the channel would <br />not be warranted. Finally, a ditch bordering the northern boundary of the <br />original waste pile had been filled with a coarse gravel imported by Burnett <br />Construction. <br />It will be important to properly re-reclaim the site upon completion of the <br />temporary gravel processing project. <br />/th <br />cc: Fred Banta <br />Ed Bischoff <br />Doc. No. 0963 <br />423 Centennial Building, 1313 Sherman Street Denver, Colorado 80203 Tel. (30'x) 866-3567 <br />