2014-12-15_PERMIT FILE - M2014043 ‎(2)‎

• Permit No: M2014043
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/15/2014
• Doc Name: Preliminary Adequacy Review Response #2.
• From: Environment, Inc.
• To: DRMS
• Email Name: TOD
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

EXHIBIT I and J
SOILS AND VEGETATION
The information in this section was obtained from the natural
Resources Conservation Service web page. This site is in an area
where the general surrounding uses are commercial development or
developed water storage. This is the last agricultural property
in the area but much of it has been use for equipment storage,
housing and has an old fish hatchery with support buildings
covering the southwest part of the site. The soils information
from the NRCS is very thorough but lacks site specific information
since most of the permit area has been disturbed by activities
that removed or destroyed most of the topsoil that may have
originally been on the site. A commitment has been made to
salvage some of the finer material or soil that is imported as
fill to supplement the on site material but cannot guess how much
will be available at the time resoiling will be done. We estimate
that if all of the growth medium/topsoil is salvaged from the site
and finer material delivered during backfilling is salvaged, then
there will enough to resoil the area with 8 to 10 inch.
The vegetation information is sparse and again it describes the
land as if it had a nearly native vegetation cover. There is
little beneficial vegetation on the mine area and that is only
around the old house and yard area. We have supplemented the
following information on vegetation from site visits and our
observations.
Vegetation information
The vegetation map shows the areas discussed in the following
text . As noted in the mining plan this site is covered by farm
yard, equipment storage, buildings and disturbed areas so there is
little good vegetation on the site at this time. This area cover
approximately 45 acres ± of the total area. The remaining 4 . 90
acres ± have a covering of weeds and grass that indicate in the
past that it has been disturbed by the landowners but has no
current use. For this reason there is no clear vegetation
background that can be used to compare the success of reclamation
with. The baseline vegetation information found in NRCS
publications does not apply to this site because of past
disturbances. This will have little impact on final reclamation
if the site is developed as a commercial area. However if it
seeded and turned into pasture then the amount of topsoil
available will limit the ability of the site to grow grass .
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