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September 15, 2011 C -1981 -028 /Keenesburg Strip Mine RDZ <br /> <br /> <br />Number of Partial Inspe ction this Fiscal Year: 2 <br />Number of Complete Inspections this Fiscal Year: 1 <br /> <br /> Page 2 of 7 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Inspection Topic Summary <br />NOTE: Y =Inspected N =Not Inspected R =Comments Noted V =Violatio n Issued NA =Not Applicable <br />Y - Air Resource Protection <br />R - Availability of Records <br />Y - Backfill & Grading <br />NA - Excess Spoil and Dev. Waste <br />NA - Explosives <br />Y - Fish & Wildlife <br />R - Hydrologic Balance <br />Y - Gen. Compliance With Mine Plan <br />R - Other <br />NA - Processing Waste <br /> <br />R - Roads <br />R - Reclamation Success <br />Y - Revegetation <br />NA - Subsidence <br />NA - Slides and Other Damage <br />R - Support Facilities On -site <br />R - Signs and Markers <br />NA - Support Facilities Not On -site <br />NA - Special Categories Of Mining <br />R - T opsoil <br /> <br /> <br />COMMENTS <br /> <br />The weather was overcast. The ground was slightly wet. <br /> <br />The complete coal inspection entailed observation of the site with Don MacDonald, and a records check. <br /> <br />Danny Kipp indicated that six loads of ash will be dumped at the site durin g the day of the inspection. One load <br />was being dumped during the time of the inspection. <br />AVAILABILITY OF RECORDS – Rule 5.02.4(1): <br />Records were in order - see list below. <br /> <br />HYDROLOGIC BALANCE - Rule 4.05 : <br />CEC records indicated that there had been .03 7 inches of rain the day before the inspection and 0.14 inches the <br />morning of the inspection. <br /> <br />Standing water was not observed in Sediment Pond 2 or the Dugout Pond. Neither pond was discharging. Both <br />have been mowed in the summer of 2011. No problems were observed with the two ponds. <br /> <br />A small amount of standing water was observed in B Pit. <br /> <br />No water was flowing in the ditch along the northern boundary, which drains into Sediment Pond 2, or in the ditch <br />west of B Pit. <br /> <br />ROADS – Rule 4.03 : <br />The road between Sediment Pond 2 and B Pit and the road between B -Pit and the Dugout Pond were observed <br />during the inspection. Despite significant rain the morning of the inspection and the day before the inspection, no <br />compliance issues were identified.