_INSPECTION - C1981008 ‎(41)‎

• Permit No: C1981008
• IBM Index Class Name: INSPECTION
• Doc Name: Inspection Report
• Inspection Date: 4/15/2010
• Email Name: MLT
• Email Name: SB1
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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Below are comments on the inspection. The comments include discussion of observations made
during the inspection. Comments also describe any enforcement actions taken during the inspection
and the facts or evidence supporting the enforcement action.
to be a "Prime Farmland Soil". Therefore, the rules and permit do not require that every
cubic yard of this material be returned to the Morgan property.
• Bench 1 thicknesses north of the Morgan parcel (WFC and Lloyd) are somewhat less than
those found on Morgan, but are nonetheless sufficient to provide the 2-foot and 3-foot
thicknesses, respectively, of "suitable subsoil" required by the reclamation plan for these
areas. There would be no need to supplement with Bench 1 material taken from the
Morgan parcel.
Backfill & Grading
• The shovel was observed excavating overburden that had been blasted and loading it into
haul trucks to be transported to the back side of the pit. A dozer was pushing shot material
down to the pit floor (Photo 4).
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• The drill rig was set up near the northern end of the active cut on property owned by WFC
(Photo 5), and was not in operation at the time of the inspection. A pattern of holes had
been already drilled, and gravel for stemming was stockpiled nearby. The next shot was
scheduled to take place the following day.
Topsoil
• Topsoil thicknesses visible at the excavation face ahead of the pit operations on WFC land
ranged from 0" (atop a rocky outcrop, Photo 6) to approximately 18" (A and B lift
combined).
• Several acres at the eastern end of the Morgan property (the first area mined and
backfilled) were topsoiled in 2006, prior to the replacement protocols established in 2008
and formalized with TR-57. The current requirement is that a minimum of 22" of Mixed A and
B topsoil be placed on Morgan (Prime Farmland) property disturbed prior to February 2008.
Depth data reported in Annual Reclamation Reports for the mine indicate that only 1.4 feet
(17 inches) of topsoil was placed in 2006. Tom Fry dug a hole in this area during this
inspection (Photo 7) and we observed the thickness of topsoil to be 17 to 18 inches. Topsoil
for this area will need to be supplemented with additional thickness in order to comply with
the reclamation requirements of the permit.
Revegetation
• The CCC Ditch had not yet been turned on, but reclaimed areas throughout the permit area
were greening up with new growth due to the relatively wet winter and spring.
• Portions of the Lloyd property seeded in the fall of 2009 were sprouting. Seed mixes used on
Lloyd's parcel were dryland pasture (for Dryland Pasture postmining land use) and winter
wheat (for Irrigated Pasture postmining land use).
Air Resource Protection
• A water truck was in operation, spraying the haul road located to the east of the southern
end of the pit.
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