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	Name:	skimalibu -
	Subject:	Coal Mining at Smith Lake!!!!!
	Date:	9/17/2008 3:35:20 PM

You guys are spot on about the run off from cleared property. We completed our house last summer with minimal disruption near the lake. We still had major sediment runoff which found itself conviently located under my dock. Upon giving the builder grief about not spending the erosion control money, he informed me that I was the first person to ever give him a hard time about not managing the runoff. I have a little experience in NPDES inspections and the methods being used on the lake are critically inadequate. The topography is a huge challenge and requires more than a layer or two of sediment fencing.

With all of this said, does anyone in the county approve erosion control plans and then follow up to make sure that they are being followed and managed? As these big, subdivision type developments come in this is going to become a major need. The mine is no different.