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<br /> <br />DESCRIPTION OF AREA: <br />C <br />This gravel pit is located 1.5 miles North then 1 mile West of <br />Montrose Colorado. It is located in the SW 1/4 Section 19, <br />Township 49 West, Range 9 West• The average annual precipitation <br />is less than 9•B inches. The average is less than 1 inch per <br />month except August and October which is 1.11 and 1.05 respectively. <br />The soils are a Mesa clay loam which is underlain with cobble <br />at about 2 feet. The balance of the soils is a Mesa gravelly <br />clay loam. The cobble is very near the surface of these soils. <br />There would be potential top soil available from the Mesa clay <br />loam soil. <br />Native vegetation found at or near the site is as follows: <br />Beardless wheatgrass, cheatgrass, squirreltail, sand dropseed, <br />galleta, blue grams, halogeton, rabbitbrush, Russian thistle, <br />kochia, prickley pes~r cactus, fourwing saltbush, basin big sagebrush, <br />spiney horsebrush, shadscale, and greasewood• The average ground <br />cover would be less than 15i• <br />Currently 6 acres of the pit is being mined. This will be <br />expanded to about 10 acres. <br />RECLAMATION PLANS: <br />When gravel extraction is complete the following reclamation <br />plan will be followed. Any topsoil encounter from this time on <br />will be stockpiled for later use in reclamation proceedures• <br />1• South head wall will be sloped to a 3:1 slope or flatter. <br />2• Floor of pit area will be graded to irrigate from South to <br />North. <br />3• Topsoil available will be placed on leveled area to create <br />as much of a growth medium as possible. <br />4• A pipe drop will transport water from field at South down 3:1 <br />sloped embankment to leveled area. This will include an <br />inlet structure and underground pipe with outlet structure. <br />5• A ditch will be constructed on South edge of leveled area <br />to be used to distribute water to field. Gated pipe might <br />be used in lieu of field ditch. <br />6• The sloped area and leveled area will be seeded to an approved <br />grass mix. See attached CO-ECS-S form for details: <br />7• Proper irrigation water management will take place to insure <br />erosion from irrigation does not occur. <br /> <br />