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• <br />In this report, processing is meant to include activities which are <br />directly involved in washing, crushing, stockpiling and marketing. It <br />does not include settling ponds or temporary stockpiles for local <br />excavations. <br />Dry Settling Ponds - These ponds are generally no longer in use <br />except for placement of sediment transportation pipes from the <br />processing plant to the active sediment ponds. As these areas dry they <br />are buried and placed in a condition of temporary reclamation. <br />Permanent reclamation will not occur until Castle Concrete's Sand Pit <br />operation to the north of this operation is completed. <br />Settling Pond - This includes the area where sediment derived from <br />the processing plant is disposed. This process backfills the area of <br />the pond and allows return of the water back to the groundwater. <br />Mixed Uses - This includes an area where there is no distinctive <br />definition of purpose. It is generally the interface area between <br />processing and other uses. Included in this area, at any one time, <br />could be uses ranging from minor extraction work, storage of temporary <br />stockpiles, roadways, equipment storage, settling ponds, and most <br />anything else that might be found in an operation of this type. <br />Grading - The area indicated as grading is occupied by an old <br />settling pond which has been covered with soil and other materials which <br />would provide a suitable plant growth medium. It could be considered <br />land under reclamation except that until the merger between Castle <br />Concrete's Sand Pit and this operation occurs, there is no way to <br />establish a final location or elevation to this material. Its surface <br />may in fact need to be altered when that merger is completed. <br />EAST OF ACADEMY BOULEV <br />Area A - Area A was primarily disturbed for purposes of <br />establishing the new route for the Fountain Mutual Ditch. This ditch <br />relocation was accomplished during the last year. Sand removed from the <br />ditch excavation, which was up to 30 feet deep in places, was utilized <br />as sand product mostly by Castle Concrete Company. Castle Concrete <br />Company relocated the ditch as part of an extensive plan to merge the <br />processing area of this operation (west of Academy Boulevard) with their <br />Sand Pit operation. <br />Area B - The area of excavation which was discussed in last year's <br />report continued to expand somewhat as more material was extracted. <br />Mostly, however, it was the depth rather than the surface area which <br />increased. <br />Area C - This small excavation was initiated in the last year in <br />an attempt to locate a special type of sand material. Not a great deal <br />of work occurred in this area, but ground was broken, soil stockpiled, <br />and some sand removed. <br />FILE 73-7 ANNUAL REPORT - 1986/1987 PAGE 2 OF 6 <br />