1987-12-01_PERMIT FILE - C1981017 ‎(203)‎

• Permit No: C1981017
• IBM Index Class Name: PERMIT FILE
• Doc Date: 12/1/1987
• Doc Name: Rill and Gully Plan - Table of Contents
• Section_Exhibit Name: Chapter V Appendix V-E-4
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

MID-CONTINENT RESOURCES, kiiI4C.
PRODUCERS OF THE FAMOUS COAL BASIN COKING COAL
BOX 158
CARBONDALE, COLORADO 81623
MID-CONTINENT RESOURCES,INC TELEPHONE
625 PLAINFIELD ROAD-SUITE 220 [phone]
WILLOWSROOK ILLINOIS 60521 TWX
July 8, 1985 910 929 6TLX
45-0724
Ms . Candace Thompson
Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Division
423 Centennial Bldg.
1313 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado 80203
Re: Rill and Gully Plan, Coal Basin Mines : File No . C-017-81
Dear Candace :
Following is our revised plan per Jeff Deckler ' s comments :
The Coal Basin mines have operated since 1956 . The mine pads
were constructed at 10, 000 feet , plus or minus, by down-sloping
the material adjacent to the Coal seams . Various other mate-
rial was down-sloped from 1956 to 1977, including trommel screen
rock and road grading material . These outslopes are at the
angle of repose, or approximately 1 to 1 slope, and have many
rills and gullies . We believe, first, that these slopes are
grandfathered and so are exempt from a rill and gully plan; and
second, when compared with the adjacent natural hill slopes
they show approximately the same erosion pattern. Our present
plan is to monitor our postmining stabilization test section
(at No. 4 Mine) and evaluate possible postmining stabilization/
reclamation methods. This is a ten-year project along with our
outslope vegetation test plot program and includes the entire
mine road system. See Vol . 7, Chapter V, Page 21 . 1 and old
stipulations 22 and 26 plus new stipulations 6 and 8.
The rills and gullies associated with our old coal refuse pile
and our present coal refuse pile and tunnel rock pile will be
addressed in the following manner :
Old Refuse Pile
Portions of this pile date back to 1956 and are thus grand-
fathered . Some of these old portions have been reclaimed while
others have not . It will be our policy to continue reclamation
on these old areas as time, money and technology permit .