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1998-036) to the north. Current mining activities are occurring at Erger's <br />Pond Pit. <br />3. Ready Mixed Pit No. 1 is presently 100 percent mined out and has regraded <br />and revegetated slopes in an open lake configuration connected to the <br />southwestern part of Bromley Lakes Pit Cell No. 3. The subject southwestern <br />portion of Bromley Lakes Pit is presently mined out, but not yet reclaimed. <br />The physical boundary between these two separate permitted pits was mined <br />out by Technical Revision to both permits. The boundary is currently <br />permitted to be replaced with engineered fill to replace it and separate an open <br />lake to the north and constructed wetlands to the south. This amendment <br />seeks to rescind the plan for replacing the boundary and proposes creating <br />water storage from the combined area at the request of the City of Brighton <br />who is seeking to maximize water storage potential in the vicinity. <br />4. Ready Mixed Cell No. 2, presently permitted as open lakes/wildlife habitat <br />will remain so, but will likely comprise more a series of shallow ponds and <br />wetland areas rather than the single deep lake originally envisioned. Plant <br />discharge fines have been higher than anticipated to date and have filled <br />portions of Cell No. 2 as it is used for sedimentation ponds between the plant <br />and the river discharge locations. Cell 2 will remain unlined, open lakes with <br />shallow ponds and wetlands, and will serve as a ground water pathway to the <br />river between Ken Mitchell Lakes Reservoir (former Bromley Lakes Pit Cell <br />No. 1) to the north and the proposed new City of Brighton water storage to the <br />south that will be created from Cell No. 3, Ready Mixed Pit No. 1, and the <br />floodplain portions of the new expansion area by this amendment. <br />5. The proposed new 77.0 acre expansion area is currently used as cropland and <br />pasture with some portions laying fallow or consisting of overgrazed pasture. <br />Former landowners have stayed on as tenants with Ready Mixed after Ready <br />Mixed purchased their properties. Agreements are in place for the tenants to <br />vacate the properties prior to mining by Ready Mixed, probably in <br />approximately three years.. The proposed new expansion area consists of three <br />19