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<br />EXHIBIT D (Cont'd) <br />area mined previously. Approximately forty percent of the <br />pit volume is expected to produce waste sands. <br />After the topsoil and overburden are removed, the clay <br />will be mined and stockpiled. On-site equipment may include, <br />but is not limited to, dozers, scrapers, backhoes, front-end <br />loaders, dump trucks and a water trailer. <br />Several drill holes encountered minor amounts of water. <br />The water was encountered in pockets; water locations were <br />totally unpredictable. Therefore, it is believed only trapped <br />water exists on the site. A settling pond at the south end <br />of the pit (Map Exhibit D-1) will collect and temporarily <br />hold any water from rain runoff or leakage of the trapped <br />water. .A drainage area will be created along the east side <br />of Stages 1 through 7 and the center of Stage 8. This drain- <br />age area will be approximately 150 feet to 330 feet wide. <br />That portion of each of these stages will be removed from the <br />corresponding reclamation phase and will ^ot be reclaimed un- <br />til the stage on the east side is reclaimed. For example, <br />when Stage 5 is reclaimed (Reclamation Phase 5), a 150-160 <br />foot strip on the east side will not be reclaimed. That 150-160 <br />foot strip will be reclaimed during Reclamation Phases~l0 and 11. <br />Spraying water to control fugitive dust is not effective <br />in this type of pit operation. Very little fugitive dust <br />will occur, but when dust is a factor, mining activity will <br />be halted until conditions have improved. There are some <br />small areas outside the clay area, such as haul roads, where <br />-14- <br />