FLOOD04543

• County: Statewide
• Community: Harrison County, Iowa
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: California Bend Missouri River Fish and Wildlife Mitigation
• Date: 11/1/1994
• Prepared For: US Army Corps of Engineers
• Prepared By: Greenhorne & O'Mara, Inc.
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Data ‎(general)‎

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MISSOURJ RJVER MITIGATION
CAUFORNlA BEND PROJECT
COMMENTS ON THE DRAFT DPR

Volume I

I. Page v, List of Abbreviations. The foUowin& abbreviations should be lower we, IIOt
capitals: CFS, DBR, MSL, PPM. Add "USDA, CSR.

2. Page 1. Paragraph a. Delele "(bXl)" from the last line. Paragraph b. line 7. U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers 1981ls not listed in the KeI"ereDCe$.

3. Page 2. Tabte 1. Second c.oluDln, fix "1>re~rve".

4. Exhibit 2. Label the State as being Iowa, and a vicini!)' map should show surrounding area.
not the entire State ot Jowa.

S. Page 9, Water Quality. Founh line. What is PAS? Iflbis is the Preliminary Assessment
Screening done by the Corps for this site, then the citation shou1d read "U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers 1994" I and the document listed in the ~ferences scc:don. Also the Iowa Department
ot' Natural Resources, Water Quality section, shoUld be contaCted to dctcrminl: whclher 11111
sampling has been done in the area, and the status of the water quali!)' in the project area. We
~.M a liefinitive re.\POnse from the DNR concernine water quaIi1y.

6. Page 9. First parapph under Water Quality, founh sentence. Delete last "not" in
sentence. Currently, sentence rc:adli thllllhtm: i) UI) C:. kk1J;e that excessive use of ag chemicAls
is not occurring, which is not quite what the writer intended.

7. Page 9, Air Qualit)'. Please provide the proper sources for the statements that there have
been no violations of NAAQS, and that the area is in alt2inmPflt,

8. Exhibit 3 - Provide a key or legend for soil types. Please identify soil types on the Nebraska
side of the river if information is available from existing data.

9. Pages 12 and 14. The sum of percentages of total site acreage for riparian timber (S2~),
cropland (1 %). l'Icllallds (llG'-'), grassland (21 '-'), and scrublshrub (139t) IOtaIs 1739t. This
may be confusing 10 some readers, please expand on any overlaps (i.e. forested wetlands, etC.).

10. Page 14, fll'st paragraph. Spacing problem.

11. Page 17, first paragraph. "White 1981" is not listed in the References. Neither is 'USGS
1970'. First full parasraph. line 7, delete "13" after "1988".

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