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American Tunnel Portal Area <br /> During 1987 and the winter of 1988 considerable waste rock was <br /> ad-ed to the waste dump as a result of driving a ramp from Main Level <br /> (American Tunnel Level ) to F Level, and a run around for the Main <br /> Lev-el rail line. Driving these waste headings and disposal of this <br /> rock at the surface was not anticipated as of the writing of the <br /> Consolidated Permit (Amendment No. 2 to M-77-378 ) . Therefore , the <br /> an-icipated covering and reclamation work on the Anerican Tunnel <br /> waste dump could not be carried out (Plate 1 ) . Trash exposed on the <br /> north flank of the waste dump was covered with borrow material during <br /> July 1987 , and subsequently, waste rock has been added to this cover. <br /> With the snow melt in the Spring of 1988 a low relief drainage <br /> swale will be constructed and maintained across the road giving <br /> access to the settling pond area from Highway 110 . Runoff from the <br /> mire area can run down this road into the settling ponds, creating <br /> mirror rilling on the unvegetated road and pond slopes . <br /> Several tractor-trailer loads of scrap iron consisting of drums , <br /> locomotives , decking, piping, machinery, fencing, ore cars , and vent <br /> tubing were hauled away by a recycler. General clean-up and trash <br /> removal was also accomplished in the yard and warehouse areas . <br /> Considerable improvements were made to the water treatment <br /> systems. A new reagent facility was constructed for treatment of the <br /> portal waste water. The former dry hydrated lime feed system was <br /> replaced by a 60 ton bulk quick lime silo and lime slaker system for <br /> -2- <br />