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<br />•NIELS SAND COMPANY • <br />MINED LAND RECLAMATION <br />ANNUAL REPORT FOR PIT #2 <br />FILE N0. M-73-7 <br />REPORT PERIOD: JAN. 7, 1988 TO JAN. 6, 1989 <br />ANNIVERSARY DATE: JANUARY 7, 1989 <br />DATE OF DATA COLLECTION FOR REPORT: DECEMBER 1988 <br />SUMMARY: During the past year, the operation <br />changed even less than it did in the previous year. <br />The market for sand products remained very <br />depressed and only about 200,000 tons of sand was <br />produced, which is well below the historical <br />averages. On the west side of Academy Boulevard <br />the settling pond shown on the annual report map <br />last year was completed and an adjacent excavation <br />was converted to use as a new settling pond. <br />Extraction occurred from a small area on the south <br />side of the dike separating this operation from <br />Castle Concrete's Sand Pit to the north. All other <br />features remained as they were the previous year. <br />On the east side of Academy Boulevard, a small <br />amount of extraction occurred in the area labeled <br />as Area B on last year's annual report map as well <br />as a small area in Area E. Other than these rather <br />minor changes, the operation remained very much the <br />same as it was the previous year. Because of these <br />small and highly insignificant changes no annual <br />report map is provided this year. The map would <br />look essentially identical to last year's map and <br />would therefore be redundant. <br />RULE 2.41(1): LOCATION AND NUMBER OF ACRES AFFECTED DURING <br />THAT YEAR. <br />The annual report maps included with last year's report <br />and referred to for this year's report due to the slight <br />changes in the operation, show the two major portions of the <br />Daniels Sand Pit #2 operation. Academy Boulevard divides <br />the operation into two portions. They are connected via a <br />tunnel culvert underneath Academy Boulevard. Most of the <br />extraction work occurs east of Academy while the processing <br />of the sand is performed on the west side of the highway. <br />The acreages affected during the last year were <br />considerably reduced as compared to the previous year. <br />Although precise acreages were not measured, it is estimated <br />that about 70 acres have been affected on the west side of <br />Academy and about 40 acres on the east side of Academy. <br />However, only a small fraction of this total was actually <br />affected in the last permit year (about 70 acres west and 15 <br />acres east of Academy). This decrease was due to the low <br />demand for material. <br />FILE 73-7 ANNUAL REPORT - 1988/1989 PAGE 1 OF 5 <br />