PERMFILE100257

• Permit No: M1992069
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Name: 83RD JOINT VENTURE RESOURCE WELD CNTY COLO
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Occasionally for specific large projects, an asphalt batch plant
ma}•be moved onto the property to product asphalt. In this case,
scales will be located with the asphalt plant. Either the
existing house or the trailer may include a quarters for a night
watchman. Motorize equipment in the mining operation will include,
front loaders, dozers, scrapers, and excavators and haul trucks.
Drinking water for the employees will be by bottled water at the
job site. Sanitation will be provided by portable sandlite
toilets.
The material to be mined at the 83rd JV Resource is sand and gravel
deposits along the Podure river. information obtain from Borlags
drilled on the property indicate the sand and gravel at the site
vary in thickness from 11 1/2 to 18 1/2 feet and has an average
thickness of 14.3 feet. The site is overlayed by overburdened
which varies in thickness from 2 1/2 to 6 feet and has an average
of 4 feet in depth. The property is a commercial grade deposit and
is suited for a wide range of construction uses including concrete
an asphalt paving agreement. Generally groundwater was encountered
at depth of 4 feet. The bedrock encountered in the drilling was a
weather clay stone.
The mining will result in a creation of lakes filled by and
rep:Lentified by groundwater. The Bellweather Exploration pipeline
will divide the water into two seperate lakes. A culvert will be
installed in the dike surrounding the pipeline in order to regulate
the water level in the up-stream lake. There is a possibility that
during the 15 to 20 year time frame for mining, the oil and gas
well. will be exhausted and both the well and the pipeline will be
abandoned. The total size of the water will be from 50 to 60 acres
depending on the overburden and waste products available as fill.
Water rights purchased with a property will be used to augment for
evaporation. Refer to Exhibit "G" for a full discussion on water.
Due to the concurrent reclamation methods, the amount of stockpiles
for topsoil will be minimized. The operators plan to handle as
much of this material only one time. For example, the topsoil and
overburden is being stripped for the mining phase to be mined, it
will be immediately placed in it's final location in the previously
mined shoreline. During the phase one mining, there will be no
location to place the material so there will be several stockpiles
surrounding the phase one mining areas. In addition topsoil
overburdened will stored next to phase eight mining in order to
finish the final reclamation here.
Jurisdiction wetlands have been delineated on the site and this map
was submitted and approved by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The Mining Plan itself fills less than 1 acre of wetlands. A
Nationwide 26 permit will be applied for.