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September 13, 2011 C -1992 -081 /Hayden Gulch Loadout JDM <br /> <br /> <br />Number of Partial Inspection this Fiscal Year: 2 <br />Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Year: 2 <br /> <br /> Page 2 of 5 <br /> <br /> <br />Inspection Topic Summary <br />NOTE: Y =Inspected N =Not Insp ected R =Comments Noted V =Violation Issued NA =Not Applicable <br />Y - Air Resource Protection <br />R - Availability of Records <br />NA - Backfill & Grading <br />NA - Excess Spoil and Dev. Waste <br />NA - Explosives <br />Y - Fish & Wildlife <br />R - Hydrologic Balance <br />R - Gen. Compl iance With Mine Plan <br />R - Other <br />NA - Processing Waste <br /> <br />R - Roads <br />R - Reclamation Success <br />NA - Revegetation <br />NA - Subsidence <br />NA - Slides and Other Damage <br />Y - Support Facilities On -site <br />R - Signs and Markers <br />NA - Support Facilities Not On -site <br />NA - Special Categories Of Mining <br />Y - Topsoil <br /> <br /> <br />COMMENTS <br /> <br />AVAILABILITY OF RECORDS – Rule 5.02.4(1): <br />All records were located at the Peabody Sage Creek Mining office. See DRMS Availability of Records <br /> <br />HYDROLOGIC BALANCE - Rule 4.05 <br /> Drainage Control 4.05.1, 4.05.2, 4.05.3; Siltation Structures 4.05.5, 4.05.6; Discharge Structures 4.05.7, <br />4.05.10; Diversions 4.05.4; Effluent Limits 4.05.2; Ground Water Monitoring 4.05.13; Surface Water Monitoring <br />4.05.13; Drainage – Acid and Toxic Materials 4.05.8; Impoundme nts 4.05.6, 4.05.9; Stream Buffer Zones 4.05.18: <br />The truck loop pond was holding water with the primary spillway stable. No discharge was noted. The <br />embankments were well vegetated and stable with no problems noted. <br />The rail loop pond was dry with no discharge noted. The embankments were well vegetated and stable with no <br />problems noted. <br />Ditches and culverts were stable with water flowing and functioning as designed at the time of the inspection. <br /> <br />GENERAL MINE PLAN COMPLANCE: <br />Demolish of onsite fac ilities has neared completion. Equipment was on site at the time of the inspection with <br />reclamation activities continues. Roy Karo of HGTI stated that backfilling and grading will begin at the <br />completion of the demolition. No problems were noted and all activities are confined in approved disturbance <br />areas, with the exception of the following: <br /> <br />-approximately 15 -20 individual toadflax weeds were identified in and around the rail line on the eastern side of <br />the rail loop. Both Dalmatian and yellow toadfl ax are a B list species and should be managed to prvent an <br />infestation.