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Volunteer vegetation has stabilized the peat material located <br /> below Tailings Pond No. 4 and no additional revegetation is planned. <br /> In 1988 it is likely that tailings deposition will be shifted to <br /> �:ne upstream method which will require excavation of borrow material <br /> from the glacial moraine to the northwest of the pond. This material <br /> would be used to raise the embankment and provide a sound foundation <br /> for subsequent raises . All pertinent details of such a plan will be <br /> forwarded to the Division as a permit technical revision. <br /> Tailings Pond No. 3 Area <br /> A second six inch thick wall Driscopipe tailings pipeline was <br /> installed from the Tailings Pond No . 3 pump house to Tailings Pond <br /> No. 4 (Plate 3 ) . Through this addition Tailings Pond No. 3 is no <br /> longer used for tailings deposition on a regular or intermittent <br /> basis . A berm was constructed along the south side of the pump house <br /> such that any tailings which might be spilled from the head tank <br /> during a power outage or mill failure will be diverted to Tailings <br /> Pond No. 3 and not into the Animas River Drainage. In this capacity <br /> Tailings Pond No. 3 serves only as an emergency overflow basin. <br /> Tailings Pond No. 3 will continue to receive muds excavated from <br /> water treatment settling ponds in 1988 . No other disturbance or <br /> reclamation is planned for the coming year. <br /> Tailing Pond Nos . 1 and 2 Area <br /> The solid waste disposal pit atop Tailings Pond No. 1 was <br /> completed and covered (Plate 3) . A new cell will be excavated, and <br /> -7- <br />