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'' <br />STATE III IIIIIIIIIIIII III <br />OF COLORADO <br />DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY <br />Del)JllmCm of Ndlora Rcsuun i•c <br />131 l Sherman 51., Room ! 15 ~ <br />` <br />4 <br /> <br />Denver, Colorado RU?Ill I <br />~ <br />~~ <br /> <br />Phone: 13031 866-1567 I I <br />FA%: 13031 81L-8106 <br /> DEPARTMENT OF <br /> I CES <br />Date: April 29, 1996 RESOUR <br /> <br />To: Jim McArctle Roy Romer <br />covcmnr <br /> lame. 5. Lochhead <br />~~ <br />From: Dan Hernandez E arc W rve Dueaor <br />~ h~ichael tl Lung <br /> Dwision Director <br />Re: Reclamation of the Arness-McGriffin Mine <br />The Arness-McGriffin Mine is an underground coal mine situated approximately 4 miles west of <br />Durango, Colorado. The Division forfeited the bond associated with this site some time ago. The <br />site's revoked permit number is C-77-003UG. The Division has balance of $1050.00 remaining. <br />I visited this site with Steve Shuey of our Durango Office on April 24th, 1996. There are three <br />areas at the site that could use some additional reclamation work. In descending order of priority, <br />they are: <br />At a switchback, water is running across the fom~er mine access road from an upslope road <br />ditch, and down the outslope of the road's embankment, causing some pretty severe erosion. <br />What we'd like done is to have the road regraded so that it's tilted back toward the hillside, <br />and have the gullies on the outslope filled in and seeded. <br />2. At the southeast side of the reclaimed portal area, some gullies have begun to form. We'd <br />like these filled in and seeded as well. <br />3. There is some severe erosion beginning m a drainage at the west side of the reclaimed area, <br />just downhill from the old access road. Steve and I thought that some large rip rap placed <br />at the head of this erosion, just below the access road, might help check the erosion. <br />Our hope would be to incorporate this work into another Inactive Mines project on the area, to help <br />reduce the cost of mobilizing equipment to the Amess-McGriffin site. If you have any questions <br />call me or Steve Shuey. Thanks. <br />DIH\jrc <br />cc: Harry Ranney, DMG -Denver <br />Steve Shuey, DMG -Durango <br />Pat Tucker, Colorado Division of Wildlife, Durango <br />m:\oss\jrc\dhmemo <br />