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• thick.n ess, and evaluate soil suitability. Sort salvage occu[red in advance of the "A" pit <br />during the 1998 field season as shown on drawing 2w9B-2A. A portion of this soil was <br />placed in stockpile J. Observations within the mixed brush, sandstone-derivetl sorls <br />indi ra [ed very suitable loamy soil was salvaged down to the fractured sandstone bedrock. <br />The thickness of recovered soil ranged from 0.5 feet on ridgetops to about 3.0 feet in <br />Swale or drainage landscapes. <br />SCC will continue to closely monitor soil handling operations duri nq the 1999 field season. <br />Only suitable sources of soil within the disturbance area will be salvaged to ensure the <br />reclaimed areas are restored to the desiretl pos tmine land uses. SCC will obtain variances <br />pursuant to Rule 4.06.2(2) and Permit C-82-057 whenever suitable soil cannot be salvaged <br />exclusively from any map unit because of equipment limrtations or operator safety concerns. <br />Soil Plt - Soil Fertility <br />Shallow postmine soil pits are excavated periodically near representative revegetation <br />monltorl nq sites to evaluate plant rooting characteristics, determine soil fertility, <br />ensure spoil suitability, and compa[e soil/spoil data with site-specific [evegetation data. <br />The pits are selected usSng an intensify of one pit pet 25 acres of reclamation. Postmine <br />soil prts ate placed within reclamation blocks that have been sorled and seeded Eor a <br />minimum of three years. Similar ml nimum time frames ate used for monitoring post mi ne <br />vegetation. The permanent vegetation has generally established sufficiently after three to <br />four years to evaluate interactions between rooting depths and soil/spoil quality (Schafer <br />et al., 19891. <br />No soil samples were collected Erom shallow postmi ne soil pits during the 1998 field <br />season. The first 25 acres of permanent reclamation on final graded spoil was completed <br />during 1994. Some of that a[ea was re-seeded in 1997 and 1998. Seneca plans to sample and <br />study the 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1997 revegetated areas durrng the 1999 field season. This rs <br />an area of approximately 170 acres. This work will be done during July to correspond with <br />the annual rev egetation monitoring planned for the 1995 and 1997 revegetation areas. <br /> Spoil Sampling in the Lennox Coal Outcrop Area and the Graded Wadge S poil <br /> <br /> Final grading was conducted in a portion of the Lennon Coal outcrop area near the "C" pit <br /> highwall during the 1998 field season. Lab analysis for the eight I81 Lennox highwall <br />. samples is presented in Lab Data tab. Also, SCC took samples of the yraded Wadge sporl in <br />the "C" pit area. Twe n[y-two (221 samples were taken on a 300 ft. grid pr wr to topsorl <br /> <br />