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Headwaters Corporation <br /> Providing Services as Office of the Executive Director for <br /> Platte River Recovery Implementation Program <br /> Summary of Significant Activity for the Period <br /> May 31 to June 27, 2015 <br /> Land Plan Implementation <br /> Land Plan management activities were focused on continuing to wrap-up acquisition/disposal items that <br /> have been lingering for some time and initiating 2015 land management activities. Specific activities <br /> include: <br /> Focus of real estate acquisitions/disposal for this period was a continuation of several long-term activities: <br /> • Discussions for excess property disposal included on-going discussions of these tracts <br /> o Broadfoot-Newark property including a land swap with NGPC for a parcel land-locked by <br /> the Elm Creek Complex is nearing completion, closing should be before July 31, 2015. <br /> o Sale of remaining Broadfoot-Newark acres does not look promising, may be best to just <br /> retain remaining acres as opposed to introducing new neighbors near OCSW. <br /> o Coordination with NDOR regarding land in Kearney to Odessa reach may receive greater <br /> impetus when other acquisitions in that reach completed. Currently a back burner item. <br /> • Search for palustrine wetland tracts producing no real potential. <br /> • Search for OCSW sites producing limited potential. <br /> Focus of land management activities for this period was: <br /> • Routine and on-going discussion with neighboring land-owners in conformance with Good <br /> Neighbor Policy for all properties. <br /> • Noxious weed control efforts underway on all complexes, wet year inducing significant weed <br /> proliferation. <br /> • Routine summer maintenance activities underway at all complexes, e.g. road and fence <br /> maintenance, well and pump maintenance, building and facility repairs and maintenance. <br /> • Fencing work resulting from damage from high flows under way on Shoemaker, Fort Kearny, and <br /> Elm Creek Complexes. <br /> • Disposal or demolition process for house and out buildings on Spiedell tract initiated. <br /> • Participation and hosting of PVWMA on June 4th in Kearney, NE. <br /> Water Plan Implementation <br /> The focus on Water activities during this period continued to be a split between activities related to <br /> Adaptive Management Plan activities (wet meadow hydrology study implementation) and maintaining <br /> momentum on on-going activities related to Water Action Plan Projects including modeling of system <br /> operations. Specific activities in each of these categories include: <br /> AMP oriented efforts include: <br /> • Wet meadow soil moisture survey coordination for field activities. <br /> 1 <br />