| 5) To start off the DEP agent said
to start with :
Instructions including Sample Plans on everything. Note this
is 45 pages long. The one that is the whole lot of all the
permits and everything is :
Water Obstruction and Encroachment Application Package which
is 145 pages long.
6) I was good to go. They answered my question. in a very
polite and quick manner, and I thank them. I at this point just
wanted an over view of what needs to be done. I found out it's
not like going and getting a fishing license. From all the talk
I knew it would be a long process, just wanting to find out what
it is. Read about the meeting from
October 2007 Carlisle show.
During this time on the phone I talked to the DEP Agent and a
few things really came to light.
1) Land use permission would be need to be looked into since
there are other laws that may need satisfied that permits may be
need for. Example: where you power slicing is it on private
property, or state lands, or state wet lands? A different permit
for each, if any will need to be looked for
2) County and other local laws need to be looked into to make
sure you don't need any permits from them.
3) Wild life studies would be needed to make sure that there
are no endangered species of animals around. And impact studies
may need done on what power slicing does to the area.
4) The dirt and gravel that is brought up from the stream
bed, how are we going to dispose of it. Since we dug it up it
seems like we can't just dump it back in the water were we got
it from. I have to look deeper in on that since we just are
replacing it back to the where it came from, less any heavy
material, like iron and any other heavy objects that we will
then concentrate down to.
5) Water sediment disturbance, on how it will effect the
people down stream and will it effect any water supplies to the
area.
6) At one point I explained that this is recreational and a
not commercial operation. I'm not going to be bringing in dump
trucks and barges and such and doing a 24 hours a day operation.
This is a weekend prospector that a few times a year would like
to dredging. But during the talk it's more the thoughts of if
several hundred people get a dredging and go into one area it's
as if it was over a big corporation came in and was doing
dredging 24/7 and was pretty much told that there is no
difference in this specific matter under the law.
7) Everything is on a case by case examination when getting
permits and that only way to get in exactly what is needed for
the case of recreational dredging is to go and file for a
permit.
8) When I go though the Application package to remember some
of the items may not need to be done, my guess is because this
would be considered a small scale mining operation.
9) Any material that comes out of the stream may need to have
royalties taken off of it by the "in
conjunction with any permitted dredging activity is subject to
the royalty and agreement provisions of the Dam Safety and
Encroachments Act". I asked how would that take place and he
didn't know, most likely since it wasn't his department that I
would be dealing with on that.
So to sum things up I'll be looking at the paper work and
bring them to light in up coming editions as to what they want
us to do to get a permit. Also to see how well Calvin is doing
in his endeavors talking with the house of Representatives on
trying to get "Recreational Dredging"
Date 1/10/2008
Happy New Years!
I hope everyone has had a good Christmas and New Years!
GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! On January 11th around noon gold actually
hit a new high of, get this, $900.10 US! before it dropped down
to where it finished for the day at $894.90US. With an overall 4
dollar gain on the day. Almost makes me want to take my nuggets
and sell them at these prices. But there has been talk of it
going higher, some are speculating that it will go as high as
$2,000US before to long. The last time gold had a historic high
before the past few months was back in the on January 21st 1980
when it hit 850$ and once and that was during inflation fears
and very high oil prices that happed during the Iranian
revolution. Here are a few links about all that is happening:
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