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C-' e;;�'.S <br /> 5TATE OF COLORADO <br /> DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY <br /> Department of Natural Resources <br /> pprt <br /> 1313 Sherman St., Room 215 <br /> Denver,Colorado 80203 <br /> Phone:(303)866-3567 <br /> FAX:(303)832-8106 <br /> DEPARTMENT OF <br /> NATURAL <br /> Date: April 29, 1996 RESOURCES <br /> Roy Romer <br /> To: Jim McArdle Governor <br /> James S.Lochhead <br /> Executive Director <br /> From: Dan Hernandez <br /> Michael B.Long <br /> Division Director <br /> Re: Reclamation of the Arness-McGriffin Mine <br /> The Arness-McGriffm Mine is an underground coal mine situated approximately 4 miles west of <br /> Durango, Colorado. The Division forfeited the bond associated with this site some time ago. The <br /> site's revoked permit number is C-77-003UG. The Division has balance of$1050.00 remaining. <br /> I visited this site with Steve Shuey of our Durango Office on April 24th, 1996. There are three <br /> areas at the site that could use some additional reclamation work. In descending order of priority, <br /> they are: <br /> 1. At a switchback, water is running across the former mine access road from an upslope road <br /> ditch, and down the outslope of the road's embankment, causing some pretty severe erosion. <br /> What we'd like done is to have the road regraded so that it's tilted back toward the hillside, <br /> and have the gullies on the outslope filled in and seeded. <br /> 2. At the southeast side of the reclaimed portal area, some gullies have begun to form. We'd <br /> like these filled in and seeded as well. <br /> 3. There is some severe erosion beginning in a drainage at the west side of the reclaimed area, <br /> just downhill from the old access road. Steve and I thought that some large rip rap placed <br /> at the head of this erosion, just below the access road, might help check the erosion. <br /> Our hope would be to incorporate this work into another Inactive Mines project on the area, to help <br /> reduce the cost of mobilizing equipment to the Arness-McGriffin site. If you have any questions <br /> call me or Steve Shuey. Thanks. <br /> DIH\jrc <br /> cc: Harry Ranney, DMG - Denver <br /> Steve Shuey, DMG - Durango <br /> Pat Tucker, Colorado Division of Wildlife, Durango <br /> m:\oss\jrc\dhmemo <br />