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The Old Tipple Road, constructed prior to 1977, connects the lower office area with <br />the county road to the north. The Old Tipple Access Road is an approved pre- <br />permit road which also retains access to historic sites of the Haybro Historic <br />District. The road was improved during mining to provide access to the office and <br />area when normal access was interrupted by trains during the loading process. The <br />improvement involved decreasing the grade of the road where it joins with the <br />county road. <br />The Division has approved the Old Tipple Access Road for permanent retention. <br />The light use road was requested by the surface owner of the property to be left <br />intact to allow access to the lower portion of the surface owner's property. The hill <br />slope and Old Tipple Access Road are also used for construction access and <br />maintenance of power transmission lines. A copy of the surface owner's request is <br />provided in Appendix 3.7-E. A profile of this roadway is shown on Exhibit 3.5-20. <br />Culverts to be retained in association with this road include: TA-6, TA8 and TA9. <br />Initially, a riparian area was anticipated to be affected by the mining operations <br />including the existing office and tipple access road corridor crossing over Oak <br />Creek. Since the access road crossing over Oak Creek has been designated as a <br />permanent road for the post mining land use a revegetation standard for this <br />riparian site is no longer required. Associated with the road is a metal tube swing <br />gate near the north end of the Old Tipple Road and a permit identification sign on <br />the north end of the road at the intersection of Routt County Road 127. <br />The Tipple Sediment Ponds were designed before the permanent regulatory <br />program to control runoff from the eastern slope of East Ridge. At that time, three <br />ponds were proposed for the drainage area. A fourth pond was added in agreement <br />with the MLRB due to the small area in which to locate the ponds. Consequently, <br />four ponds were built to provide sedimentation control for the area. The ponds are <br />dugout with a combination principle and emergency spillway. Exhibit 4.6-21 shows <br />the location of the ponds and Exhibit 4.6-22 is a plan view of the ponds. A letter <br />from the Office of the State Engineer, addressing water rights for the tipple ponds is <br />given in Appendix 3.7-D. <br />The Tipple Sediment Ponds were reclaimed in 2003 via Technical Revision 41. <br />Former Tipple Ponds 1, 2, and 3 and interconnecting ditches have been reclaimed to <br />a drainage way in compliance with the reclamation plan. Tipple Pond 4, the lower <br />of what was once a set of 4 ponds, is left in a sediment trap configuration. Tipple <br />Pond 4 was permitted to retain a (modified) basin shape. <br />Technical Revision 45 approved the permanent retention of the office building and <br />associated site reclamation near the Old Tipple Access Road in support of <br />agricultural land use, hunting sub-classification. The topsoil stockpile in the Oak <br />Creek Area was planned for redistribution over the area prior to the permanent <br />retention of the office building. It is a permanent feature, PAP 3.6-14. Production <br />well 86157, located at the office building was permitted as permanent, recorded with <br />Bond Release Application, Page 2 of 3