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<br />EAST MINE AREA - cont'd <br />essential to <br />determine the <br />Hazardous Was <br />One important <br />disposing of <br />temporarily s <br />removing some <br />Tax Notice - <br />An individual <br />for a parcel <br />prising most <br />the old highw <br />strongly to t <br />on the site a <br />by virtue of <br />Office (Frank <br />structures an <br />Division demo <br />WEST MINE <br />reclamation priorities for each area in order to <br />t effective use of remaining funds. <br />ask remaining to be done at the East Mine Area involves <br />- 55 gallon drums of hazardous wastes that have been <br />red within a bermed area. This work will also involve <br />oil material contaminated by drum leakage. <br />awed Russel Brown has purchased the delinquent Tax Notice <br />land formerly owned by Western Slope Carbon and com- <br />all of the disturbed area situated on the South side of <br />which passes through the site. Mr. Brown objected <br />Division's demolition of sll mining related structures <br />he felt he had acquired an interest in the structures <br />rchasing the Tax Notice. According to our A.G.'s <br />ohnson), Mr. Brown's interest did not involve the <br />as such Mr. Brown had little or no recourse to the <br />shing all of the structures. <br />Initial reclamation & seeding work was completed by the Fall of 1990. <br />Revegetation appears to be successful on most areas, however the <br />predominance olf yellow sweet clover on the site needs to be monitored <br />to determine ~~hether other planted species will increase in subsequent <br />growing seasons relative to the proportion of sweet clover. <br />Erosion does not appear to be a problem on this site, however a minor <br />problem occurs occasionally whenever the railroad people divert drainage <br />around their siding switch and perform other earthwork activities along <br />the rail right-of-way. <br />New Subsidenc <br />The most sign <br />subsidence op <br />entry no. 1. <br />portal backfi <br />prevented com <br />feature does <br />the opening b <br />the original <br />workings by a <br />years ago, ho <br />from the orig <br />approx. 20 ft <br />SILO AREA - <br />This site is j <br />stockpile area <br />two 50 ft. dia <br />(property of t <br />a topsoil stoc <br />work on this s <br />Mountain Coal <br />Feature - <br />icant problem on the site is the presence of a new <br />ing which developed this year over the location of portal <br />his opening was already partially caved when the initial <br />ing was done by the Division, and this older cave-in <br />ete backfilling of the entry. As the new subsidence <br />low access into the portal entry, it is essential that <br />backfilled in the near future. It should be noted that <br />ne entry is probably sealed off from the underground <br />lock wall type seal installed by the operator several <br />ver this seal would be located approx. 90 to 100 ft. <br />al entrance. The new subsidence opening is situated <br />from the original entrance. <br />st West of the West Mine Area and consists of a coal <br />truck dump, truck scale (partially buried), conveyor, <br />eter by 175 ft. high concrete storage silos, a substation <br />e local utility company), sediment pond & ditches, and <br />pile. The Division has not initiated any reclamation <br />to due to the ownership situation with the silo facility. <br />ompany (ARCO - West Elk Mine) has acquired title to the <br />