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TABLE 2 -2 <br />SUMMARY OF BRIDGE SEGMENT CHARACTERISTICS <br />Bridge Length (river <br />Segment miles) Platte River Characteristics] Developments[ Conservation AreaS2 Counties USGS Ouads <br />7 <br />5.9 Flow mainly in Middle Chann <br />(Gibbon to <br />separated from smaller North <br />State Hwy. <br />Channel by middle portion of <br />10) <br />Fort Farm Island, and Kilgore <br />few gravel pit by main channel. <br />Island. Middle Channel often <br />1,000 ft wide or more, mostly <br />bordered by open land. North <br />Channel <300 ft, wooded. <br />8 7.1 Main flow in Middle Channel <br />(State Hwy. (east half), separated from North <br />10 to Channel by Kilgore Island. <br />Kearney Highly braided in west half. <br />Channels bordered by riparian <br />woodland, floodplain grasslands, <br />and agricultural land. <br />9 9 Platte River is in two to several <br />(Kearney to channels, except near Kearney <br />Odessa) and Odessa bridges. Channels <br />are mostly less than 500 ft wide, <br />mostly bordered by riparian <br />woodland. <br />I -80 closely parallels North <br />2,065 acres owned, <br />Channel. Transmission lines <br />780 acres leased/ <br />cross Middle Channel at about <br />easement. National <br />RM 203.2 and RM 204.4. A <br />Audubon Society <br />few gravel pit by main channel. <br />(Rowe Sanctuary), <br />NG &P, Trust. <br />Kearney located about 1.5 1,620 acres owned. <br />miles north of west end of TNC, Wyoming, <br />segment. Numerous gravel NG &P <br />pits, especially just north of <br />I -80 and south of river. <br />I -80 parallels segment on 110 acres owned <br />north. Numerous gravel pits NG &P. <br />near bridges. <br />Buffalo County. Gibbon <br />Kearney County is Newark <br />about one mile south <br />of Middle Channel. <br />Buffalo, Kearney Newark, Kearney <br />Phelps, Kearney, <br />Buffalo <br />Kearney, Alfalfa <br />Center, Elm <br />Creek East (edge) <br />68FOD9728600/Rlt2.2 5 /26 /99(1130PMyURSGWCFS Sheet 3 of 4 <br />