2009-04-29_REPORT - C1980007 ‎(3)‎

• Permit No: C1980007
• IBM Index Class Name: REPORT
• Doc Date: 4/29/2009
• Doc Name: 2nd Quarter 2008 DRMS Review Memo
• From: DRMS
• To: File
• Permit Index Doc Type: Stability Report
• Email Name: TAK
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
MEMO
Date: April 29, 2009
To: File
Permit: C1980007 (West Elk Mine)
Class: Report
Doc. Type: Geotechnical Monitoring Report
Doc. Name: DRMS Review Memo - Q2-08 Report
From: Tom Kaldenbach
COLORADO
D I V I S ION OF
RECLAMATION
MINING
SAFETY
Bill Ritter, Jr.
Governor
Harris D. Sherman
Executive Director
Ronald W. Cattany
Division Director
Natural Resource Trustee
The above-referenced report provides monitoring data collected from piezometers, stone
columns, and surface stations in the Main Surface Facilities area and in Sylvester Gulch.
The monitoring data show continued landslide movement in these areas. Movement
during the report period was locallyfaster than in recent years, and coincided with
historically high water levels in piezometers and stone columns. The report contains
recommendations for continued and expanded monitoring, and notes that stabilization
designs have been prepared for the power pole above the Material Storage Bench in the
Main Surface Facilies area.
cc: Kathy Welt, Mountain Coal Company
Dan Hernandez, CDRMS
Office of Office of
Mined Land Reclamation Denver • Grand Junction • Durango Active and Inactive Mines