uh it's much much more
complicated when I first started in the
late' 7s we were just talking about
getting stuff seed
rated now we're talking about water
quality and we're talking about
productivity of of uh Farmland uses
Forest land uh we're talking about uh
spoil placement where before we weren't
talking about those those type of
things what we do prior to a starting is
we develop a mind plan and on the Mind
plan we develop our cut sequence and
also we develop what the land's going to
look like prior or post
M we we always have ongoing Reclamation
in your mind and as we're going we're
trying to reclaim as quick as we we can
behind us watching out for our water
quality and making sure erosion
settlement control is in
place the main thing that uh we watch
for is drainage
control uh then then you would be
looking for spoil
placement uh if you have red zones
houses roads you'd be watching for the
mining operation near those type of
things what what we do is uh when we
work with the county their developer
come up with a plan what they like to
and we incorporate that plant into our
mining um our mine as we're Mining and
then we get with the state the mlr to
make sure that they're okay with the
plan laid out and they're a partner
along with the county on these land you
have uh Consultants do uh vegetation
surveys and uh depending on the land use
whether it's trees you'd have a tree
count vegetation you have a vegetation
count
I think it's the attention to detail on
a Reclamation and the the partnership
with all the entities been the Canon
County being V do dmlr so what you're
talking about here is we've got 4500 ft
of stream that has been
restored that wouldn't have been the
water would have run down through uh
some in some cases spoil in other cases
it would have been just been areas that
weren't mined now it's a constructed
Waterway and your water quality is going
to improve over time by doing that well
they got all the resid thisal used they
got the flat useable land they've got uh
access roads into the
site um the actually papat Park you know
was originally just a one ball field
baseball one football field now it's
four tennis courts track basketball gym
horse rings I mean they've just got a
really more usable area for the county
and for the public
use and now we have restored it back to
about what it was before any mining was
done in here it it's pretty amazing to
see it going from a
pre-law mines that have high walls all
the way around it to what we got today
for p County it's it's amazing because
prior to Hawks Nest ban County only had
I think 5 Acres of usable land and
they're pushing 12 to 1500 Acres
now it's a big deal for us you know
we're all environmentalists at heart you
know from what we walk out here day one
we want to restore the land as close to
what the original condition was prior to
us coming in and if not enhance the land
you know once we leave cuz we don't want
to leave it in a non usable land for the
future
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