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4.0 MONITORING AND ANNUAL REPORTING 4.1 Slope Movement Vector Analysis Survey monuments have been installed at the Pitch Reclamation Project to monitor surficial slope displacement. The area east of the North Pit Lake and south of Northing 113,500 is referred to as the south wall of the North Pit; and the area east of the pit lake and north of Northing 113,500 is referred to as the east wall of the North Pit. These walls are identified separately for ease in discussing slope movement and do not imply the presence of a kinematic distinguishing feature at this location. The first monitoring points were installed at the east and south walls of the North Pit in 1994. Some of the monuments have been destroyed due to re-grading, and critical ones . were replaced with new monuments having different identification numbers. In 1996, 6 monitoring points were installed to replace points in the north pit. In 1997, 14 monitoring points were installed to monitor shallow slope movement that was observed on the south wall of the North Pit. In 1998 and 1999, 5 monitoring points were installed at existing locations including inclinometer collars. In 2000, 11 monitoring points were installed in the North and South pits. A monitoring point was placed at the collar of piezometer P-09 at the east wall of the South Pit in 2001. In ' 2005, 13 monitoring points were installed to monitoring shallow slope displacement observed on the east wall of the South Pit. On October 8, 2010, 6 of the monitoring points on the east wall of the south pit that were installed in 2005 were abandoned, because they had been compromised by slope displacement and tension crack formation. Also at that time, 8 new monitoring points were installed to replace the abandoned installations and positioned to provide a profile of the slope. There was a net increase of two, in the number of monitoring points. There are currently 85 monitoring points in the North and South pits to monitor surficial slope movement. Monument locations are provided on the Slope Displacement Vectors drawing presented as Appendix A. Surveys are usually conducted as close to one year intervals as possible, allowing the magnitude of displacement to be reported as a velocity in terms of ft/year. Surveys of all accessible monuments were conducted on August 27, 2010 with the previous survey performed on September 28, 2009. The surveys are actually conducted over several consecutive days with the median date used to represent the data set. Of the 83 points surveyed in 2010, 31 had annual displacement magnitudes that were greater than survey error during the 2009-2010 monitoring Pitch Reclamation Project Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board 2010 Annual Reclamation Report 16