_INSPECTION - C1981017 ‎(28)‎

• Permit No: C1981017
• IBM Index Class Name: INSPECTION
• Doc Name: Inspection Report
• From: DRMS
• To: Mid-Continent Resources, Inc.
• Inspection Date: 5/11/1983
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

III. Comments - Compliance
Below are particular issues with regard to any of the above compliance items. . Enforcement
actions resulting from failure to .comply with the Act, Rules and Regulations, and the permit
also are identified below.
1. Copies of NPDES permits and monitoring reports , the thermal dryer air emissions permit,
permit application, permit No. 77-419, County special use permits, and water quality
monitoring records were checked and found to be in order.
2. The Mine 1 and 2 roads were generally in good shape, although some ditch maintenance
is needed. The ditches on the Mine 3 road need to be cleaned as soon as possible. The
ditches on the Mine 5 road were obscured by snow. One culvert near the junction of the
Mine 5 road and the railroad grade was evidently plugged and should be cleaned. The
culvert at the junction of the Mine 4 and Mines land 2 roads should also be cleaned.
3.' The bathhouse pond was observed to be seeping through the emergency spillway. The
rip-rap should be removed from the spillway and the upper end of the spillway sealed
with impermeable material .
4. The MK pond was filled to capacity with sediment. This pond should be cleaned .as soon
as possible.
5. The bus garage ponds were discharging a small amount of water that appeared to contain
suspended sediments in excess of the limit of 70 mg/l . Flocculant was added to the pond
immediately. After approximately 2 hours, the ponds were reinspected and the discharge was
visibly cleaner. The operator should continue to add flocculant to the pond until the
discharge is in compliance. Also, the upper of the two ponds should be cleaned of sediment
as soon as possible.
6. Mine No. 3 was discharging water from the underground workings at the time of this inspectio
7. The upper pond of the four in series below the refuse pile should be cleaned as soon as
possible. The upper two ponds were again completely full of sediment and the third pond
was rapidly filling up. The effluent from the fourth pond appeared to be in compliance, but
with the other ponds filling up with sediment, the suspended solids content will be
increased in a short period of time.
8. The temporary topsoil stockpile below the Rock Tunnel waste pile should be moved to it's
permanent location as soon as possible to avoid any contamination by waste rock.
9. The sediment removed from the sediment ponds and some waste coal material was dumped
at the Rock Tunnel waste disposal area. The operator should be aware that this practice
was not included in the approved plan for disposal of waste rock from the tunnel construction
and tromMel screen rock. If this material is thoroughly mixed with waste rock there should
be no stability problems . If this practice is to continue, Mid-Continent must revise the
approved disposal plan.
10. The coal storage bin below Mine No. 2 had frozen up. The coal is temporarily stockpiled
on the bench, leaving no sediment control berm. This coal and the Trommel screen rock must
be removed as soon as possible and the sediment control berm reestablished.