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~ • • III IIIIIIIIIIIII III <br />~~ „„ ~~ <br />F_?CI-IIBIT D <br />PROPOSER MINING OPERATION <br />1. GENERAL OPERATING METHODS: <br />The operation proposed for the site is an open pit gravel operation <br />utilizing normal construction equipment, including loaders and scrapers. <br />This equipment will operate in a manner normally used in both dry &wet gravel <br />mining methods and construction excavations. No blasting will be required. <br />I During the tine the actual mining operation occurs, £arm;ng will continue <br />on the portions of the site where farming is now conducted and which are not <br />actually disturbed at that time by the mining operation. As will be described <br />1 below, it is the intention of the mining and reclamation process to remove <br /> only a portion of the land et the time from its existing condition --either <br />' farmland or vegetated flood plain land, -- and then return it as soon as the <br /> mining is completed to its proposed final configuration so the final recla- <br /> <br /> mation processes can proceed. As shown in the mining plan, the irrigation <br />' and farming of the land presently cultivated can continue in decreasing area <br /> as the mining and reclamation phases overtake the land. <br />Basically, the mining operation will commence at the West end o£ the property <br />' and progressively work to the East. An office and maintainance shop and <br />parking area will be constructed at the North. portion of Area 10. An <br />access road will be constructed along the North property line. This will be <br />used for all phases of the operation and will remain in the reclamation plan <br />' for access to the river, ponds and open space. <br />The mining operation described in more detail below has been designed to <br />minimize the area disturbed at any one point in time as well as to minimize <br />double handling of materials, specifically overburden. The block-cut method <br /> <br />