PERMFILE111179

• Permit No: C1982057A
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/11/2001
• Section_Exhibit Name: Tab 4 Premining Land Use
• Media Type: D
• Archive: Yes

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merely to document premining land uses and are not indicative of any adverse impacts.
The nearest industrial land use adj scent to the Mine Permit Area is about one quarter of a
mile east of the area. An operating oil well and associated equipment occupy a small
tract of land along a tributary of Saga Creek. Additionaily, oil, gas, and methane
drilling activity has increased in the last several years. Current activity is located
north and east of the permit area.
Land use related to water resou reel adjacent to the Seneca II-W Mine Permit Area includes
stock watering ponds, streams, and reservoirs. Numerous stock watering ponds are situated
to the southeast, south, and southwest of the permit area. Streams adjacent to the Mine
Permit Area include Dry Creek and Sage Creek and their tributaries, the largest of which
is Hubberson Culch.
Both Dry Creek and Sage Creek previously had small reservoirs located on them. Sage Creek
• Reservoir was located approximately one and one-half miles east of the Nine Permit Area.
In May 1985, the dam failed and the reservoir drained. It has not been reconstructed.
The John C. Temple Reservoir No. 2 was located on Dry Creek about one and one-fourth miles
(northwesterly) from the Seneca II-W permit boundary. This reservoir also suffered a dam
failure and has not been reconstructed. As discussed in the Alluvial Vailey Floor Section
of Tab ), approximately 30 acres of lower Hubberson' Culeh have hi stori Bally been hayed;
present land use of this area is pasture and hay land. Upstream of Sage Creek Reservoir
there is a small area presently used for hay production, Just north of the confluence of
Hubberson Gulch and Watering Trough Gulch (the start of Dry Creek), approximately 20 acres
of land are being used as pasture and hay land.
Haul Road. The haul road system leading from the Nine Permit Area includes the extattng
county road following Dry Creek to the general vicinity of the inaeti ve W, R, Grace coal
loading facility, located approximately two miles southeast of Hayden. From here, the
tie across haul road has been constructed to the Hayden electric power generating plant.
The existing county road extends about six miles from the Seneca II-W Mine Permit Area to
the W. R. Croce coal loading facility.
• Land use adj scent to the Dry Creek Road, rdileh is to be used as the haul road, includes
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