The Manti-La Sal National Forest plans to drain Boulger Reservoir later this summer in anticipation of expanded coal mining under the popular fishing spot high on Utah’s Wasatch Plateau.
has been moving its underground mining operations in recent years, producing more than 3 million tons of coal a year., Skyline’s owner, secured permits to begin mining Flat Canyon coal in 2017 and its operations have been progressing west as it extracts coal through room-and-pillar mining techniques. They are now close enough to Boulger to potentially impact its aging dam.
According to Skyline’s permit application for Flat Canyon, there should be no mining-induced surface subsidence in the upper Huntington Creek area, which contains Boulger and Electric Lake. This is because the company will use room-and-pillar techniques in this area rather than longwall methods. This way of mining leaves behind blocks of coal, or pillars, to support the overburden extending 1,000 feet above the mined coal seams.
Even though hundreds of vertical feet separate Electric Lake and the mine’s underground workings, water from the lake floods the mine, according to reports and documents found in Skyline’s permit file. Wells must continuously pull water from the mine and return it to Electric Lake.
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