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> JAMES K. MINER, Prcfident <br />HELEN P. MINER Vice-President <br /> <br />BUILDERS AGGREGATE CO. <br />FOAT MOAGAN, COLORADO R070I <br />Page 2 <br />Reclamation Plan <br /> <br />1, Proposed future us of the land x111 be for wildlife <br />habitat and posaiblp industrial in the far future. <br />PHONE: 867-6334 <br />2, Synopsis--Reclamation of the mined pit area has been <br />an ongoing process since operations began in 195l~. Our <br />operation mines tons of fine Bijou silt and sand that is <br />used to refill the mining area opened by the dredging <br />operation. Once the former mined area is filled with such ~~ <br />sand fPom a discharge flume from the screening bins, n <br />bulldozer is used to level the sand and a two foot layer <br />of stored overburden (Dirt and Clay), is spread over the <br />sand, Thia area is then used ae a stockpile area or <br />reverts back to wildlife habitat with natural riverbottom <br />flora and vegetation completing the reclamation within <br />a years tide. <br />It should also be noted that as Builders Aggregate ~--_ <br />has its operation in a flood plane (South Platte River), <br />flood raters which have been known to carry 50~ sollde <br />consisting of sand and silt, fill in any previous or <br />present mining areas and naturally revert the area to <br />pre-mining use. These floo~rhappen on nn average once <br />every thirty yeara,(~e, 1935, 1965), and floods of lesser <br />magnitude, even a few reeks of abnormally high eater, <br />refill the mining aroa and revert much of the site to <br />pre-mining conditions. <br />3, "Spoil from mining" consist primarily of a washed and <br />screened fine sand, Thia material may be weed as a <br />plaster Band or fill material. The mining area contains <br />90~ of such fines and in such huge quantities may be <br />considered as "spoils" with little commercial value. <br />4. The placement of this sand against the Great Western <br />dikes would be unrenaonable because the washed and <br />screened sand is transported by a 20 inch flumo to the <br />area to be ceclaimed and ie used to Pill previously mined <br />areas. This flume carries 100 of the water used in the <br />dredging process and therefore the water and sand would <br />be difficult to control as putting such "spoils" against <br />the dikes would create a greater liklihood of damaging <br />