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West Elk Mlne <br />• cleaning that may be required. The pond is designed to contain the runoff volume from a 10- <br />year, 24-hour storm event. The primary discharge structure is a gated HDPE pipe. The <br />emergency spillway is also a HDPE pipe, but is not gated. <br />MB-5 <br />Sediment pond MB-5 has been designed to accommodate storm water runoff, and is located at <br />the old Beaz No. 1 mine site. The pond usually is dischazged only once a yeaz. The principal <br />spillway is a gated pipe, and the emergency spillway is anopen-channel, rock-lined spillway. <br />This pond was designed to store three-yeazs of sediment. The pond has never been cleaned as <br />the sediment generated is less than what was predicted in the SEDCAD model. MB-5 is sized to <br />hold the runoff from a 25-year, 24-hour storm event. <br />SG-1 <br />Sediment pond SG-1 was constructed in 1997 to accommodate storm water runoff from the pads <br />associated with ventilation shafts #1 and #2, located in Sylvester Gulch. The pond treated <br />construction water during construction of the shafts. The pond was designed to contain the 10- <br />yeaz, 24-hour runoff volume. The pond is lined with HDPE. The principal spillway consists of a <br />channel of filter rock that filters the sediment prior to entering a slotted HDPE pipe, which then <br />becomes a solid pipe. The system is an effective means to treat the water and the dischazge pipe <br />has been designed to remain open. However, it is usually valved closed to control dischazge <br />from the pond. The emergency spillway is anopen-channel, rock-lined spillway. The pond was <br />designed to hold three years of sediment. As the pond has recently been constructed, MCC <br />cannot evaluate the frequency of cleaning that may be required. <br />RPE Ponds <br />The RPE ponds were also constructed during 1997 to accommodate storm water runoff and <br />possible leachate from the Refuse Pile Expansion (RPE). The RPE ponds aze essentially one <br />pond with two cells, similaz to pond MB-1. Water from the sediment ditch enters Cell A (the <br />eastern cell). Water can be treated in this cell and dischazged directly to the river through piping <br />that connects the cell to the primary dischazge structure in Cell B, or the water can be transferred <br />over to Cell B for further treatment if necessary. The primary dischazge is through a gated pipe. <br />The emergency spillway is a pipe, but remains open. The pond has been designed to hold the <br />runoff volume from a 100-yeaz storm event. The pond was designed to hold three years of <br />sediment that could be generated during a stone event. As the pond has recently been <br />constructed, MCC cannot evaluate the frequency of cleaning that maybe required. <br />FW-1 <br />Freshwater Pond-1 (FW-1) was originally designed to provide two months storage capacity for <br />potable and domestic water uses at 250,000 tons per yeaz production. At a projected production rate <br />of 8.2 million tons per yeaz, approximately 3.0 days of storage capacity is now provided. This pond <br />• has a capacity often acre-feet, an embankment height of 19.5 feet, and a surface azea of 1.10 acres. <br />2.05-30 Revised June 2005 PR10 <br />