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AMAX Mineral Reso J6 Company. 1707 Cole Boulevard 999 <br /> Golden,CO 80401-3293 go <br /> 303 234-9020 <br /> ®�AMAX �, <br /> Minerals+Energy <br /> October 4 , 1989 CT 5 1989 <br /> MINED LAND <br /> CERTIFIED MAIL RECLAMATION DIVISION <br /> P 297 426 98 <br /> Mr. John T. Doerfer, Reclamation Specialist <br /> _b O Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Division —' <br /> 1313 Sherman Street; Room 215 <br /> Denver, Colorado 80203 <br /> Re : Climax Mine Amendment, File No. M-77-493., <br /> USFS S IssLyes�\/ <br /> Dear Mr. DfNF <br /> Relative tetter from the USDA Forest Service (USFS) <br /> White Riveted July 31 , 1989 ( #2800 ) and your letter <br /> dated August 10 , 1989 , Climax has the following response <br /> for the record. <br /> Following receipt of the USFS inquiry, two meetings and <br /> on-site tours were arranged and conducted with White River <br /> NF personnel (Mr. Chuck Harnish, Forest Hydrologist) to <br /> discuss the issues raised in the letter. The latest of <br /> these visits was September 27 when Climax agreed, to the <br /> satisfaction of the USFS, to undertake some minor drainage <br /> control work on the road to the small catchment basin <br /> ( actually a small pump pond) below No. 4 dam. Climax also <br /> offered to submit its past and future aquatics sampling <br /> data from the upper Eagle River to the USFS. <br /> The two specific issues raised in the USFS letter were <br /> addressed as follows (again, to the satisfaction of the <br /> USFS) : <br /> Issue #1 : A contingency plan is and has been in place <br /> regarding the catchment basin below No. 4 dam. Actually, <br /> there are two ponds below this dam - one is a primary <br /> seepage collection and return pond and the other ( lower) <br /> is a backup or secondary catchment pond with a float acti- <br /> vated dewatering pump installed which returns seep water <br /> into the process system. The primary pond has a backup <br /> pump which starts automatically should the primary pump <br /> fail . In addition, this station is equipped with a backup <br /> power generator for emergency power. The primary pond is <br /> connected with a remote radio-telemetry system which moni- <br /> tors the water level and triggers a signal to alert <br /> security and operations personnel in the event of high <br /> water. A supply of sorbent pads is maintained in a ready <br /> state should these systems fail . To date, the system has <br /> operated without discharge to the Eagle River watershed. <br />