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the predominant drainage characteristics reconstructed. Thirteen of the seventeen drainageways <br />anticipated to be disturbed and/or reconstructed in this permit term drain a watershed of less than one <br />square mile above the uppermost sediment control pond in the drainage. All of the drainages impacted by <br />mining in this permit term are ephemeral. The eleven smaller watersheds are drained by West Pyeatt <br />(256 acres), Middle Pyeatt (411 acres), Grouse (177 acres), Sage (125 acres), Oak (313 acres), Ute (81 <br />acres), Deer (32 acres), West Flume (139 acres), Middle Flume (578 acres), East Middle Flume (133 <br />acres), East Flume (93 acres), Horse (285 acres), West Horse (248 acres) and Deal (176 acres). The <br />other watersheds are No Name (1,379 acres), Johnson (1,359 acres), and East Pyeatt (1,157 acres). <br />As is evident upon examination of the postmining profiles, mining and regrading operations through the <br />gulches will cause, or have caused them in most areas to be elevated as a result of overburden and <br />interburden swell not completely offset by the amount of coal recovered. The differences are caused by <br />drainage geometry and waste to coal ratios. An exception is the K pit area where some material will be <br />removed by a truck/excavator fleet and placed in permanent fill locations. In general terms, the <br />ephemeral drainageways will be re-established to functionally blend with the undisturbed drainageway <br />below the area to be backfilled and reclaimed. <br />The reestablished drainageways will have slopes that generally diminish in magnitude from the top to the <br />bottom approximating a parabolic curve. Also, the principal channel of a drainage will be constructed such <br />that the approximate drainage area which existed prior to mining for a particular drainage basin and its <br />associated principal channel will be established for the postmine drainage <br />3-03 <br />2 PZ10, <br />PRSO <br />R ( 21 1 O`ff.