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<br /> <br />RECLAMATION PLAN <br />E%RIBIT E BARTLEY GRAVEL PIT (112) <br />SECTION 15, T40N, R19iI, NMPM <br />Planned reclamation for the existing and proposed operations is <br />revegation for livestock dry range grazing. Worked-out excavation <br />areas will be smoothed by bulldozer and oversized reject material <br />placed at the toe of the bordering slope-cut banks. Stockpiled topsoil <br />will be respread, smoothed and contoured evenly over the prepared <br />surface to an average depth of 1 to 2 feet. <br />The natural gradient both of the surface and the underlying hard <br />sandstone in the east portion of the site would drain surface moisture <br />to the road culvert at the east corner of the permitted area. <br />Experience has shown in the existing operation that surface moisture <br />does not accumulate on the site, despite the temporary artificial low <br />areas of the operations and throughout an unusually wet winter, spring <br />and summer. <br />Present existing drainage west of the pipeline right-of-way is <br />southerly to the north ditch of County Road L, thence west along the <br />road ditch, although very little surface drainage is experienced on the <br />site. Reclamation grading will allow for continued southerly surface <br />drainage. No water impoundment is expected to occur during nor <br />following operations anywhere with the permitted area. <br />Postmining use of the premises conforms with the premining site <br />use and existing use of neighboring lands to the east and west. <br />Adjacent lands both north and south are located outside the bench slope <br />of the proposed site and due tc deeper soils are better suited to their <br />present use for dryland bean and wheat cultivation. <br />NOGTN <br />yo`~ <br />y,. <br />_ _ ~ _ ... _-_ ~ _.. .. - _- _ _ CRO VLAUa <br />- ~ DAKOTA - -- - ~ - ~ -~~ -SANDSTONE - - - ~ - - - - - <br />