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drop of discharge. Thus the spill did not occur into a flowing stream and all the corrective actions <br />were carried out in a dry stream bed. This is important because it means no siltation occurred in <br />Turkey Creek as a result of the spill or the repair work. The channel is now ready to receive flow. <br />This dryness is a result of the severe to exceptional drought that has plagued southeast Colorado for <br />the last couple of years and most especially in late 2010 and 2011. <br />Corrective Action <br />Corrective Action Taken: Some of the concepts used in the corrective action were stated <br />above, but few specifics were provided. During the inspection by the Division on June 15, 2011, the <br />corrective action planned by Schmidt was described to Mr. Keffelew. He agreed that work should <br />begin immediately. <br />Prior to actually removing the rock from the stream channel, it was necessary to lower the <br />slope and ridge on the west side of the channel where the spill rock was located. That slope was <br />about 60 feet higher than the channel. The mining limit was about 25 to 30 feet above the channel <br />Therefore, an additional shot, carefully designed to avoid sending more rock down the slope, was <br />taken. This rock was removed by using a track hoe to pull the rock back into the quarry so as to <br />avoid additional spillage that would only make the removal more difficult. <br />Once that was accomplished and the edge lowered to about 30 feet above the channel, a crude <br />road was excavated down the slope by removal of spill rock and hauling it back to the top and into <br />the quarry. This continued until the track hoe reached the channel at which point the hoe was used to <br />remove most of the rock from the channel as well as any large rocks that were beyond the east bank <br />of Turkey Creek. Care was taken to avoid significant damage to the east bank because that was well <br />vegetated. Although a good deal of the top growth was removed to access rocks, the soil was little <br />disturbed which left roots in the ground. The vegetation here, being streamside species, quite readily <br />resprouts from roots. It is therefore expected that the streambank vegetation should recover nicely <br />without any additional effort to replace that growth. <br />In the process of excavating the spill rock on the slope it was discovered that most of the <br />scree that had come down over the years filled in an old meander. It was expected that solid bedrock <br />would be encountered a short ways west of the west bank of the stream channel. In fact, the bedrock <br />was located 30 to 35 feet west of the current bank. Removal of this scree to expose the bedrock wall <br />allowed the creation of a wide, nearly level bench higher than the stream channel and wide enough to <br />capture future erosion and rock falls so the stream can be kept cleaner and flowing more smoothly. <br />This bench has a very gradual upward slope to the downstream end which is adjacent to a rock wall <br />that extends to the stream bank. The west side of the bench is nearly vertical bedrock granite and <br />schist. At the upstream side of the bench it is about 5 or 6 feet higher than the stream channel. At the <br />Corrective Action Completion Report Menzer Quarry M- 1976- 009 -HR 08/08/2011 Page 3 of 6 <br />