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• Seneca II-W Mine Permit Area. Four of the other houses are located east of the Mine Permit Area <br />along Sage Creek. Existing residences have been indicated on Exhibit 4-1 merely to document <br />premining land uses and are not indicative of any adverse impacts. <br />The nearest industrial land use adjacent to the Mine Permit Area is about one quarter of a mile east <br />of the area. An operating oil well and associated equipment occupy a small tract of land along a <br />tributary of Sage Creek. Additionally, oil, gas, and methane drilling activity has increased in the last <br />several years. Current activity is located north and east of the permit area. <br />Land use related to water resources adjacent to the Seneca 11-W Mine Permit Area includes stock <br />watering ponds, streams, and reservoirs. Numerous stock watering ponds are situated to the <br />southeast, south, and southwest of the permit area. Streams adjacent to the Mine Permit Area <br />include Dry Creek and Sage Creek and their tributaries, the largest of which is Hubberson Gulch. <br />Both Dry Creek and Sage Creek previously had small reservoirs located on them. Sage Creek <br />Reservoir was located approximately one and one-half miles east of the Mine Permit Area. In May <br />1985, the dam failed and the reservoir drained. It has not been reconstructed. The John C. Temple <br />• Reservoir No. 2 was located on Dry Creek about one and one-fourth miles (northwesterly) from the <br />Seneca II-W permit boundary. This reservoir also suffered a dam failure and has not been <br />reconstructed. As discussed in the Alluvial Valley Floor Section of Tab 7, approximately 30 acres of <br />lower Hubberson Gulch have historically been hayed; present land use of this area is pasture and hay <br />land. Upstream of Sage Creek Reservoir there is a small area presently used for hay production. Just <br />north of the confluence of Hubberson Gulch and Watering Trough Gulch (the start of Dry Creekl, <br />approximately 20 acres of land are being used as pasture and hay land. <br />Hau( Road. The haul road system leading from the Mine Permit Area includes the existing county road <br />following Dry Creek to the general vicinity of the inactive Hayden Gulch Terminal, Inc. coal loading <br />facility, located approximately two miles southeast of Hayden. From here, the Tie-Across Haul Road <br />has been constructed to the Hayden electric power generating plant. The existing county road <br />extends about six miles from the Seneca II-W Mine Permit Area to the Hayden Gulch Terminal, Inc. <br />coal loading facility. <br />Land use adjacent to the Dry Creek Road, which is to be used as the haul road, includes <br />• <br />TR-50 11 Revised 11/04 <br />