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1 <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br />1 <br /> <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />Banks and Gesso, LLC <br />Mining will begin on the upstream portion of Area 3. This will enable the <br />installation of pit-side protection as part of the initial backfilling operations. The <br />vegetation will be stripped, salvaging as many trees to transplant into un-mined <br />areas, or backfilled areas after reclamation begins. The remaining material <br />above the water table will be removed with various excavation equipment to <br />approximately two feet above water. The rest of the material will be wet-mined <br />with a large hydraulic ~sxcavator or dragline. The wet mining will occur along <br />slots, running west to east. Western mining limits will be set at a minimum of <br />100' from the ordinary high water mark, as designated by the Corps of <br />Engineers, or five feet from the property line. Mining in these slots will progress <br />eastward, until significant roots are encountered from the large trees at the toe of <br />the river bank, as designated by Urban Drainage and Flood Control District. This <br />zone of tree roots (approximately at the drip line) will become the eastern mining <br />limit. Trees in the interior will be removed or transplanted, while protecting all <br />significant trees along the mining limits. Overburden materials stripped from <br />Area 1 will be pushed into the upstream side of the slot to begin concurrent <br />backfilling operations, to within a foot of desired grade. The Applicant requires <br />sufficient distance beriveen the toes of mining and backfill slopes, to prevent <br />contamination of the r<aw material being extracted. <br />Per Urban Drainage and Flood Control District's recommendations, the Applicant <br />commits to not having more than one acre of exposed water during mining <br />operations in Area 3, to minimize the volume of pit that could potentially cause <br />headcutting, should high floodwaters overtop the mining limits. Pit slope <br />protection near the large trees defining the eastern mining limit of Area 3 will <br />consist of recycled concrete rubble, processed and placed according to <br />UD&FCD's recommendations. <br />' Phase 2 <br />After Area 1 and Area 3 have been mined, the buildings in Area 2 will be <br />removed in preparation of wet-mining. Concurrent mining of Areas 2 and 3 will <br />provide the Applicant ~a source of raw material to process during the high water <br />' seasons. <br />' Phase 3 <br />After all materials have; been mined, all processing equipment in Area 1 will be <br />' removed to facilitate final reclamation of these areas. The eastern slope of Area <br />1 and the backfill to grade in Area 2 will consist of shale materials excavated <br />from the floor of Area '1. Stockpiled topsoil materials will complete reclamation <br />' earthmoving requirements. Final grading and scarification will prepare reclaimed <br />lands for seeding. <br />' Speer Mining Resource ~~ 99035 <br />Asphalt Specialties Company, Inc July 24, 2000 <br />