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-$- • sized to contain all solutions in the heap, while operating solutions, 100 year, 24 hour storm event, and still maintain two feet of free board. Again, they are double lined and they also have a leak detection system underneaih it. Waste materials from both pits will be deposited in various waste disposal facilities. The initial waste from the West Pit will serve to badcfill the East Pit and waste will variously be placed in Waste Disposals A, B, C, and D on the north side of the Rito Seco and also transported to the south waste rock disposal facility. The County road will be relocated in a portion of the mining area, near the East Pit. It will be relocated to the south side of the Rito Seco. The County road relocation, tfie main haul road relocation, are the only areas within the 100 year, 24 hour flood plain. There are flood plains identified by the Colorado Water Conservation Board and tributaries which would pass normally through the West Pit Area. Diversion ditches have been sized to carry the 100 year, 24 hour event around the West Pit Areas, various it to • sediment control structures before discharging into the Rito Sego. As far as reclamation of the site goes, all of the waste rock disposal facilities will be graded out to a 3 to 1 slope. The East Pit, as I mentioned, will be badcfilled with waste from the West Pit. The West Pit will be left open and we estimate that about seventy-five percent of 'the West Pit is actually flat lying area due to the mining methods and the nature of the ore deposit. So that seventy-five percent of the pit will be topsoiled and revegetated. All facilities will receive a minimum of eighteen inches of topsoil. The Company will establish test plots on the site with varying depths of topsoil to determine what is the optimal topsoil amount necessary to achieve maximum reclamation of the site. We have undertaken geochemical analysis of the ore materials and the waste rock materials, and have identified no hazardous or toxic forming or acid forming materials on site. We do not anticipate any metals mobilization, we do not anticipate any acid production from the waste disposal facilities.