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QUARTERLY COAL WASTE BANK INSPECTION REPORT <br />CDMR Rules 4.09.1(11) and 4.10.2(2) <br />Mine: Southfield Mine <br />Waste Bank MSHA ID. Nc Primary Refuse Disp <br />Inspection Period: Send Quarter 2007 <br />Inspection Date: June 26, 2007 <br />General Description or Reference to Site Pian: <br />The refuse area lies west of the main facilities area. Refuse has been placed in designed lifts <br />on a relatively flat terrain. Upslope runoff is diverted away from the disposal area, while runoff <br />from the disturbed arm is channeled m a sediment control pond. The mine is in final <br />reclamation and all areas have been sloped to final grade, covered with topsoil, and seeded <br />and mulched. <br />Activity During Inspection: <br />Area is inactive with no personnel or equipment on-site. Vegetation density has responded <br />well to this years ample precipitation. No evidence of significant erosion was observed. <br />Perimeter side ditches were open and functional. Cracks, slumps or other signs of <br />potential failure were not obvserved. Operator had repaired the small sink hole that had <br />opened up on the borer east slope early this year. The occrrmence did not appeared to <br />be qused by the refuse pile and did not impair the stablility of the refuse slope. Affected <br />area was about 400 square feet <br />Drainage: (Discussion of springs. seeps, overland and channel flow, underdrain construction andlor <br />discharge, integrity of 100-year 24hour drainage structures, and evidence of positive drainage). <br />No springs or seeps were observed on the refuse surface. Positive drainage has been maintained <br />on the reclaimed areas. Drainage and diversion structures were intact All required underdrain <br />construction Crass been completed. <br />Observation of Fill Construction: (Description of material, compaction, lilt thicknesses, slopes, <br />and construction methods), <br />No refuse placement has oaxrmed since December of 2000. Prior m cessation of mining, waste <br />material was placed in alternating lifts of fine and coarse material in accordance with the plan as <br />described in the TenaMalrix report dated December 5, 1996. <br />