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.~ <br />O o <br />-~' o c a D <br />d COMPANY <br />iii iiiiiiiiniu iii <br />999 <br />5731 State Highway 13 <br />Meeker, Colorado 81641 <br />(303) 824-4451 <br />January 22, 1992 <br />Mr. Steve Wathen <br />Reclamation Specialist <br />Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Division <br />215 Centennial Building <br />1313 Sherman Street <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Re: Update of Texaco <br />of the Oil Spill <br />Ditch around the <br />into Wilson Creek <br />Clean Up Activities <br />into Colowyo's Diversion <br />Gossard Loadout and <br />Dear Mr. Wathen, <br />Y ~0- ~V <br />a i1~~u <br />`, ~ <br />JAN 3 p 199; <br />Mined Land <br />4n,a,,,,. .~ <br />Colowyo would like to update MLRD on the status of the above <br />mentioned activities. Refer also to a letter dated December 5, <br />1991 from Colowyo to MLRD which details the same topic. <br />Chain of Events, continued... <br />December 4 through 10 - Texaco has a total of two "hot trucks" <br />washing the lower part of Wilson Creek starting at County Road 51 <br />and working downstream approximately 1.5 miles to the siphon tube <br />dam which is in place in Wilson Creek. Each day a straw bale dam <br />is built across Wilson Creek at the estimated extent of washing <br />that day. Washing of the creek commences with one hot truck and <br />laborer manning the hose, moving downstream melting the ice and <br />snow. The second hot truck follows the first with two laborers <br />manning hoses washing the creek bed and vegetation of oil. A third <br />laborer uses a rake or pitchfork to gather oil soaked vegetation <br />which will be allowed to dry and burned later. At the end of the <br />day, both the floating oil trapped by the straw bale dam and the <br />straw bale dam is burned. The process is then repeated the next <br />day where the prior days activity left off. <br />December 11 - Texaco completed washing operations of Wilson <br />Creek north of County Road 51 and moved operations south of County <br />Road 51 up to the junction of Wilson Creek and Colowyo's Gossard <br />Diversion. Texaco constructed a second siphon dam in Wilson Creek <br />approximately 500 feet north of County Road 51. Texaco also has a <br />third siphon dam constructed below the Gossard Diversion at its <br />junction with the Wilson Creek. All three siphon dams are located <br />