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Minesite Inspection Narrative <br />Inspection Dates July 7, 1993 <br />Mine: Coal Basin <br />Company . <br />Mid - Continent Resources <br />P.O. Box 1298 <br />Glenwood Springs, CO. 81602 <br />Mike Mechau, Crystal Valley Environmental Protection Association <br />Bill Jochems, Crystal Valley Environmental Protection Association <br />Diane Delaney, Mid - Continent Resources <br />John Reeves, Mid - Continent Resources <br />Bob Lawton, Forest Service <br />Larry Routten, Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology <br />Steve Rathbun, OSM <br />Thomas W. Wright, OSM <br />Weather: Sunny and warm <br />Comments <br />This inspection was done in response to a citizen's complaint from the Crystal <br />Valley Environmental Protection Association and Citizens Coal Council received by <br />the Office of Surface Mining in Albuquerque on July 6, 1993. The State of <br />Colorado was notified the same day, by telephone, that the inspection was to be <br />conducted on July 7 and Larry Routten was present for the inspection. Bill <br />Jochems and Mike Mechau of the Crystal Valley Environmental Protection <br />Association accompanied OSM's representatives on the inspection. <br />This complaint identified three areas for which the Crystal Valley Environmental <br />Protection Association asked that Imminent Harm Cessation Orders be issued. <br />These are #1) two openings created by demolition of structures, #2) the lower end <br />of the Dutch Creek Flume and #3) two waste pile areas. <br />The two openings created by structure removal was the first of the areas to be <br />inspected. As a result of structure demolition shafts remain on yard above the <br />facilities area. These are concrete lined openings with over twenty feet of vertical <br />drop to the bottom of the structures. No barriers or warning signs had been placed <br />around either of these, flagging around the upper of the openings was the only <br />measure implemented by the mine. <br />