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<br />' INTRODUCTION <br />' Western Slope Carbon's coal waste disposal site is located in Delta County <br />on privately owned land in the S~, SW~, NFL (Pit No. 6), Section 28, Township <br />' 14 South, Range 92 West, 6th Principal Meridian. This location is approxi- <br />mately 2'~ miles east of Hotchkiss, eight miles southwest of Paonia, and nine <br />' miles northwest of Crawford. The elevation of the disposal site is approxi- <br />mately 5400 feet. <br />The Delta County Commissioner designated this portion (Pit No. 6) of the Delta <br />i County Landfill as a coal waste disposal area for use by Western Slope Carbon <br />(as agreed upon by Warren Cockroft, the landowner). <br />Western Slope Carbon has contracted Tony Jenssen Transportation Company of <br />Delta, Colorado to conduct all phases of the coal waste disposal operation <br />' including transporting, grading, and burying the coal waste. The estimated <br />life of Pit No. 6 is 1'i years. Other sites and alternatives are being con- <br />' sidered by Western Slope Carbon to dispose of the coal waste generated by the <br />coal washing plant at the Hawk's Nest Mine. A description of the operations <br />' at the Hawk's Nest Mine can be found in the Hawk's Nest Mine Plan, 1981, on <br />file at the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Division Office and the Office of <br />Surface Mining in Denver, Colorado. <br />1 <br />Pit No. 6 consists of a retention embankment behind which the coal waste is <br />' deposited, spread, and compacted in two foot layers. After the coal waste has <br />been graded to a predetermined elevation, subsoil material is distributed and <br />' graded to a depth of approximately three feet. The subsoil is scarified before <br />the topsoil (A and C Horizons, combined) is distributed and compacted to a <br />' depth of one foot. The final topography will be a terrace-like land form, <br />crowned in the center to provide the majority of drainage to the north and <br />south. There will be a very insignificant amount of drainage over the embank- <br />' ment. The embankment and drainage will be revegetated to lessen the erosion <br />of the topsoil. The top of the terrace will be utilized for dry land farming <br />by the landowner. <br /> <br />J <br />