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September 12, 2011 C -1982 -057 /Seneca II -W Mine SLB <br /> <br /> <br />Number of Partial Inspection this Fiscal Year: 5 <br />Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Year: 1 <br /> <br /> Page 3 of 10 <br /> <br /> About 50 migrating sandhill cranes were resting along the Tie -Across Haul Road all three mornings of the <br />inspection. Several song birds and a spike deer were seen in the reclaimed areas. Four mallards were on Pond <br />005. <br /> <br />HYDROLOGIC BALANCE - Rule 4.05 Drainage Control 4.05.1, 4.05.2, 4.05.3; Siltation Structures 4.05.5, <br />4.05.6; Discharge Structures 4.05.7, 4.05.10; Diversions 4.05.4; Efflu ent Limits 4.05.2; Ground Water <br />Monitoring 4.05.13; Surface Water Monitoring 4.05.13; Drainage – Acid and Toxic Materials 4.05.8; <br />Impoundments 4.05.6, 4.05.9; Stream Buffer Zones 4.05.18: <br /> Pond 009 was holding water at the discharge level, but was not di scharging. The embankment was stable <br />and vegetated, but there were rodent burrows along the crest. These should be monitored to ensure that the <br />integrity of the embankment is not compromised. <br /> <br />Pond 015 was discharging clear water; the embankment was stab le and vegetated. <br /> <br />Stock pond T24 was dry. T22 was wet but not holding water; the bottom of the pond was densely covered with <br />cattails and bottlebrush squirreltail grass. T20 was holding water but was not discharging. T3 was dry. T2 held a <br />little water . T25 held water and was discharging down PM -1A. T26 and T27 both held water. <br /> <br />Pond 005 held water and was discharging. Cattle were on the embankment, which was stable and well vegetated. <br /> <br />Pond 017 was discharging clear water. Water was flowing into th e pond from three seep areas on the north side of <br />the pond, below a slide that occurred this spring. <br /> <br />ROADS – Rule 4.03 Construction 4.03.1(3)/4.03.2(3) Drainage 4.03.1(4)/4.03.2(4) Surfacing and <br />Maintenance4.03.1(5) and (6)/4.03.2(5) and (6) Reclamati on 4.03.1(7)/4.03.2(7): <br /> The operator had been doing maintenance work along the Tie -Across Haul Road. Culverts previously <br />identified as problematic had been addressed with the following exceptions: TAHRC -7 should be armored with <br />rip rap at the outfall a nd TAHRC -10 needs to be cleared on the inlet side. Ditches along the road were in good <br />condition. <br /> <br />Ditches and culverts along Haul Road G were in good condition. The culverts and ditches along Road J were in <br />good condition with a few exceptions - the sil t fence at Culvert J1 was torn; Culvert J4 silt fence was not keyed in <br />at the base; and the inlet of Culvert J7 was blocked by gravel and rocks from the road. <br /> <br />Culverts Y -2 (at the shop) and A3 (between stock pond T2 and the shop) need to be cleared; there were a few <br />inches of sediment in the bottom of both. <br /> <br />REVEGETATION – Rule 4.15 Vegetative Cover; Timing: <br /> Vegetation along the reclaimed G Road corridor is coming along very nicely. There is good cover of <br />grasses and forbs and a fairly dense stand of s agebrush and rabbitbrush. This corridor has markedly fewer weeds <br />than the majority of the reclaimed mining areas. <br />