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Reclamation of pit areas is concurrent with mining. At the end of mining, all <br />facilities and structures with the exception of the Wadge, PeCoCo, and Northwest <br />Impoundments which are approved as permanent impoundments, will be removed, and <br />final pit highwalls reduced. All disturbed areas will be regraded, topsoil will <br />be replaced, and vegetation reestablished. <br />Mine-related facilities include the office, bath house, warehouse and repair <br />building, maintenance building, welding shop, fuel storage, truck wash bay, <br />explosives storage containers, and the warehouse yard. Mine-related structures <br />include sedimentation ponds, diversion ditches, and culverts. <br />Water usage at the site is limited to dust suppression, maintenance, and domestic <br />use. Water used in maintenance and dust suppression activities is withdrawn from <br />sedimentation ponds on site. Water used for domestic purposes is supplied by an <br />on-site well. Peabody Coal Company has secured water rights for all water usage <br />and for replacement in the event that off-site water supplies are damaged or <br />depleted. <br />Non-coal waste is disposed of in the final pit of the Wadge mining area. <br />Materials placed in the pit are not considered hazardous or toxic, and will not <br />pose a threat to groundwater resources. The pit will be backfilled and completely <br />reclaimed at the end of mining activities. <br />-~- <br />