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<br />Repair of the slump will not be done until the drainage system is fully operational <br />again and the source of the problem at the processing plant can be fully addressed. The <br />drainage system, although not fully functional, still retains all the sediment it was designed to <br />retain. This is accomplished by diverting runoff into other pathways chat still lead to the final <br />discharge treatment outfall. However, those diversions cannot be permanent. <br />Reclamation <br />(Wording same as 1998 report): Reclamation during the past year has concentrated <br />on revegetation work on the new mining areas. If the reclamation area on Map 2 is compared <br />with the Mining area on Map 1 the considerable overlap is evident. This is the result of using <br />the new approach to reclamation of benches, that is, immediate backfilling and topsoiling of <br />benches az they are completed. Although, az expected, bench collapse is still occurring, the <br />effects of those events on reclamation are minimal. This is because the ingredients for <br />reclamation are already in place when the collapse occurs and repair occurs rapidly. In effect, <br />the progress of the reclamation and the quality of chat reclamation is very nearly az expected <br />and described in the last amendment for this operation. <br />A total of 6.6 acres of reclamation was done at this quarry in the last year, about the <br />same amount as was done in the previous year. All of this involved reclamation of actual <br />quarried land rather than land in the support area az haz occurred in the pazt. As benches are <br />completed, fill and soil is placed on the benches. Late in the permit year the CMRF planted <br />Douglas Fir seedlings throughout the newly reclaimed area except on the benches. Nearly all <br />of the seedlings planted in the last year were part of the Enhanced Reclamation with only a <br />very small number attributable to requirements under Base Reclamation. Seeding of the <br />newly reclaimed land occurred just prior to tree planting to avoid adverse impacts of <br />trampling on seedlings and to allow trampling to fur[her bury the seed. <br />UPDATE 1999: No additional reclamation was implemented in the last year az <br />no land waz available to be reclaimed. <br />UPDATE 2000: Little additional reclamation was done in the last year due <br />to a lack of additional completed land to reclaim. Replanting of other areas that were <br />adversely affected by slumpage during the major April/May storm in 1999 was completed <br />after repair of the damages. This included replanting of several hundred trees that were lost. <br />UPDATE 2001: Additional reclamation was done on the south end of the <br />quarry. Due to the depth of the limestone being mined and the small amount of land <br />completed with mining each year, the amount of reclamation being done within the quarry <br />area has decreazed considerably from what it was a few years ago. The reclamation cannot <br />expand until the mining is completed. Perhaps an additional acre will be reclaimed in the next <br />year, but it might be less or none at all. <br />Castle Concrete 2001 Annual Report M-77-211 Pikeview Quarry Page 4 of 5 <br />