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<br />Chatfield Reallocation FRlEIS Study Meeting <br />Tetra Tech Conference Room, Lakewood, Colorado <br />Thursday, August 9, 2007: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm <br /> <br />Welcome and Introductions (Tom Browning, CWCB) <br /> <br />Project Mitigation Update (Tetra Tech) <br />. Gary Drendel started off the meeting with a Power Point presentation <br />outlining habitat overlap at Chatfield Reservoir. The slides included the <br />following information: <br />o Bird habitat inundated at the 5,444' pool is approximately 453 <br />acres. There are 90 acres that are considered non-bird habitat <br />(parking lots, roads, etc.). <br />o Preble's habitat inundated at the 5,444' pool is approximately 332 <br />acres. <br />o Wetland habitat inundated at the 5,444' pool is approximately 114 <br />acres. <br />o Gary added that the Preble's habitat will be the driver for <br />decisions-its range is limited and the habitat occurrence is the <br />rarest of the three. The USFWS will want to stay as close to the <br />impacted habitat as possible when looking for mitigation lands. <br />o These acreages represent the footprint of inundation-the model <br />will show more detail on the fluctuation of the pool and what is <br />impacted when the 5,444' level is reached. The highest areas <br />around the pool will rarely be inundated. It was pointed out that <br />new habitat will also be developed along the fringe of the new pool <br />level. <br />o If added up, the three habitats total over 900 acres but it is <br />necessary to look at the overlap of the habitats, totaling 464 acres, <br />to understand the amount of land that will need to be mitigated. <br />o A table was distributed to meeting attendees that was developed in <br />the June 4th Mitigation Workgroup. Additional information for the <br />table came from numerous contacts in the Chatfield area. It was <br />reviewed with the USFWS on July 30th and further updated. The <br />table currently includes 28 candidate sites. It includes the following <br />information for each site: <br />· Property and Project Description <br />· Location Information <br />· Ownership Information <br />· Acres potentially mitigated for each habitat (birds, Preble's, <br />wetlands) <br />· Water Availability (to be determined) <br />· Cost (to be determined) <br />o The table presents current total acres of potential mitigation sites <br />versus acres inundated at 5,444': <br /> <br />1 <br />