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6.4.8 Exhibit H - Wildlife Information Wildlife Assessment Site Description Savage and Savage conducted an on-site wildlife assessment for the Burnco Inouye WWTP project site on March 1, 2020. The WWTP project site is comprised of approximately 37 acres within the SPA SW'/a of Section 31 within Township 2 North, Range 66 West of the 6th Prime Meridian, Weld County, Colorado. The center of the project site is located at 40.0892540 latitude and -104.822784'longitude. The property is located west of Fort Lupton between Weld County Road 14'/2 and Colorado State Highway 52. The property is accessed from Weld County Road 26'/z. Weather during our site investigation was cool, and overcast with a temperature in the mid-3 ff). The topography of the site is dominated by the primary alluvial terrace of the South Platte River. The elevation of the project area averages 4894 feet and slopes gently to the east toward the river. The soils that dominate the site are formed from alluvium and consist of loams and clays. The significant hydrologic feature adjacent to the site is the South Platte River. The Lupton Bottom Irrigation Canal flows from southwest to northeast to the west of the site. A riparian woodland community of plains cottonwoods (Populus deltoides) dominates the riparian corridor immediately adjacent to the South Platte River. This riparian corridor is dominated by mature cottonwoods with a mixed shrub understory and mesic to hydrophytic herbaceous component. The WWTP project site itself is comprised of former waste water treatment plant ponds which were constructed prior to 1974 (USDA, 1981). These areas are no longer active and have reverted to a mesic herbaceous plant community with no tree overstory and no shrub understory. Active and inactive agricultural areas dominate the remainder of the area adjacent to the project site Significant Wildlife Resources Tables 1, 2, and 3 list wildlife species that potentially occur on-site according to the Colorado Distribution Latilong Studies (CDOW, 1981, 1990, 1998). The latilong studies address mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. A further review of wildlife species for which the Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife has distribution maps on the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission web site (http://cogcc.state.co.us/infosys/Maps/wiIdlifemap.cfm) did not reveal any sensitive wildlife habitat or surface restricted occupancy areas within or adjacent to the project site (see appended map). Exhibit H Page 1