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Site Description <br />1. Location and General Land Use Information <br />Exhibit B <br />The Cotton Wood Creek Fire Mitigation Project is located 7.9 miles southwest of Colona, CO on <br />Miraposa Road which is reached via Government Springs Road. The site is private ranch. The site is <br />not intended to be converted to a mining operation. A permit has been applied for to remove the <br />boulders generated during the fire risk mitigation project. <br />2. Site Geology <br />The areas exposed bedrock is Dakota sandstone along the steep slopes with some exposures of <br />Morrison Formation in the deeper portions of the drainages. Most of the flat areas and some slopes <br />are overlain by a thin sandy to silty material. <br />3. Surface Hydrology <br />Rainwater generally flows from the flat areas into the local drainages and then east to the <br />Uncompahgre River. Based on USGS mapping Cottonwood Creek is an intermittent drainage. A <br />stock pond exists the below the larger project area. No sediment is anticipated to leave the active <br />boulder removal area because vegetative buffers have been left inplace. <br />No irrigation ditches or other man-made waterways pass through the site. <br />4. Groundwater Hydrology <br />No ground water is anticipated to be encountered during the limited surface disturbance of this <br />project. Local wells are <br />5. Soils <br />A soils map and report have been included in Appendix A — Soils. The area has not been mapped by <br />NRCS but areas within a few miles of the site have been mapped and are representative of the project <br />area. Soils boundaries are along the transition from the flat areas into the drainages. The entire <br />permit area would be categorized as R3 -Rock Outcrop. Some Arabrad fine sandy loam (map unit <br />Cottonwood Creek Fire Risk Mitigation Project June 2015 B-1 <br />