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SITE DESCRIPTION EXHIBIT B 1. Location and General Environmental Information The site is located at 5600' elevation in the first alluvial terrace above the North Fork of the Gunnison River. Currently, Cecil and Patricia Farnsworth have operated two river harvesting 110 gravel pits very close to the proposed permit area. One is known as the Farnsworth Gravel Pit#2 (M-1982-154) and is permitted immediately west of the proposed site and the other is known as the River Bottom Pit(M-1992-100)which was permitted under the River Bottom Land Corporation on the Farnsworth property. This site includes a portion of the river as well as the processing area north of the river which is active as of 2004. These areas are seen on Map B-1. Access to the River Bottom Pit site is directly from State Highway 133. Access to the proposed permit area south of the river is from 4005 Lane,a County Road,which ends at the permit area. According to the landowner,the site was leveled years ago by bulldozer to facilitate irrigation, ex- cept for a small depression dug out of the area which now contains a man-made wetland and a pond of approximately 0.57 acres of water surface which was also excavated from the terrace in the past. Farnsworth has obtained water rights for the evaporation of this pond. The pond will not become part of the larger pond to be left from the new proposed mining of this 110 permit. Wetlands also exist a)in a ditch that exists south of the south end of the permit area, shown on Map B-1 and c)in a fringe of 4' width along the existing pond in the southwest corner of the permit area. No wetlands will be disturbed within this permit by mining. The south end of the permit area will avoid a grove of large cottonwood trees which have been in place for many decades. 2. Site Geoloav The site will mine approximately 7.5 acres of the first alluvial terrace above the river. This gravel is recent alluvium of the Quaternary age and is normally no more than 25 feet thick. Immediately be- low the gravel and making up the hillsides on both sides of the River is Mancos Shale,which is more than 1000 feet thick in all areas surrounding the site. 3. Surface Water Hvdroloav The permit area is located on the top of the first shallow terrace above the North Fork of the Gunnison River. Approximately 640 square miles drain to the River at this location. The River makes a gradual bend just north of the property and further bends to the west to the northwest of the permit area. No main streams enter the River within the vicinity of the permit area. The river itself 3 North Fork Pit March 04