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MINING PLAN EXHIBIT D(CONT) <br /> The PRE-MINING MAP - EXHIBIT C shows how the area looks at this time . <br /> The gravel deposit is an alluvial deposit that averages 15 to 45 <br /> feet deep across the property. This deposit will tend to thin as <br /> mining progresses from east to west and moves into the lower <br /> level . The deepest area is under the terrace area on the east . <br /> The numerous buildings and structures located on the site at this <br /> time will be demolished and hauled from the site prior to mining <br /> commencing. This includes any buried gas, phone and water lines <br /> on the site . The operator will contact a buried line location <br /> service to check the area for any type of buried utility or <br /> gasline that are not owned by the landowners and need to be left <br /> when mining is complete . <br /> MAP EXHIBIT C shows the outline of the mining area, the touching <br /> landowners, the 200 foot ownership, current topography, and <br /> hydrologic features of the property. The land is presently used <br /> for rural residential and agricultural purposes by the landown- <br /> ers . Most of the area is highly disturbed where equipment has <br /> been stored or used for various agricultural activities . Most of <br /> the area would be considered poor range land or pasture . There <br /> has been little or no maintenance of the site for many years . It <br /> is overgrown by invading weeds and contains little natural <br /> vegetation except around the old gravel mine lake . Cottonwood, <br /> Elm and Russian Olive trees have invaded the area on the lower <br /> terrace and western area that have shallow ground water. The <br /> Russian Olive trees will be removed during mining and any other <br /> trees outside the area to be disturbed will remain. <br /> Access to the site is via 2 existing driveways ; one from the <br /> Monaco Street on the east side and the other down a shared <br /> private lane from East 88th Ave . , on the southwest part of the <br /> property. The driveways will be widened and maintained as needed <br /> and will remain when mining is complete . Since the lanes are an <br /> existing private road that will remain when reclamation ends, <br /> they are not included as part of the permit area . <br /> GEOLOGIC SETTING <br /> The affected lands are located along the South Platte River in a <br /> Quaternary age, Piney Creek alluvial deposit . The eastward <br /> dipping beds of Upper Cretaceous age are overlain at an angular <br /> unconformity by the Pine Creek alluvium. The sand and gravel <br /> 4 <br />