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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Power Plant, owned and operated by PacifiCorp.The North Rilda and Mill Fork portals were sealed in November 2017. The Left Fork Rilda portals were sealed in December 2017. Demolition of this facility was completed in February 2018.Demolition of the Rilda Canyon portal facilities was completed in July 2018. Earthwork operations for reclamation began in September 2018 after delays caused by the 2018 Trail Mountain Fire. Reclamation of the site was completed in June 2019. The Trail Mountain fire not only burned the surrounding forest, but also ignited abandoned coal and waste piles at the old Helco Mine site. These coal pile fires burned for over a year until the coal and waste piles were excavated, extinguished with water, and buried on site. The site was then reclaimed. (Unless otherwise noted, Rilda Canyon comments from documents on file with the Utah Division of Oil gas and Mining)Reclamation(Unless noted, all information about reclamation activities comes from documents on file with th Utah Division of Oil Gas and Mining. In many cases, the information is surprisingly incomplete and hard to discover among the intra-agency bureaucratic haze. There are an amazing number of single-page transmittal letters.)1987-2003UP&L temporarily idled the Des-Bee-Dove mine in 1987 and the portals were sealed. The property sat idle from 1987 through 1997 as attempts were made to sell the mine and all its assets. In 1997, PacifiCorp, as successor to UP&L, began relinquishing its mined-out coal leases and submitted a notice to the Utah Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining that it would start reclamation of the entire Des-Bee-Dove mine complex. Reclamation started in 1999 when the all portal openings were permanently sealed and backfilled, and all surface facilities were demolished and removed. Reclamation of the Beehive and Little Dove portal areas was completed in May 2002. Reclamation of the
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