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• Engineers' Comments ikeview Quacry • <br />Pet Letter of April, 1979 <br />Page 4. <br />Question 113--Comment Continued <br />(c) Continued. <br />have detrimental affects on broadleaf species. Use of those chemicals <br />available at the time of this reclamation program is a management <br />decision. Revegetation of the disturbed areas at Pikeview Quarry <br />will require timely application of agronomic and horticultural <br />principles. Castle Concrete Company intends to have a qualified <br />individual on the site to plan and carry out the revegetation program. <br />Question 114: For the area to be reclaimed as an industrial site: <br />(a) How the site will be adequately developed for use as an industrial <br />site. <br />(b) What type of alternate revegetation plan would be implemented in <br />the event the industrial site is not pursued. <br />Comment• <br />(a) There is presently a great demand for industrial sites, particularly <br />in the Northwest sector of the City (i.e. Digital Equipment Corporation, <br />Hewlett Packard, Kaman Sciences, Texas Instruments,~etc..). It is <br />reasonable to project this demand as continuing and the availability <br />of sites as diminishing. This lower portion of the Pikeview Quarry <br />is suitable for an industrial site in several respects. The site is <br />relatively isolated from residential areas. The soil in the Quarry <br />area is of a good structural nature suited to heavy equipment, heavy <br />building loads, etc. Industrial areas are stereotyped as generally <br />asthetically unpleasant, so new industries are interested in upgrading <br />their image. These factors combine to make this a probable future <br />desirable industrial site. <br />The terrain will require considerable grading to handle large buildings, <br />but it is certainly reasonable to develop the area on benches with <br />one central access as illustrated on Attachment No. 2. The immediate <br />plan would be to leave the proposed site in a relatively smooth state <br />at a constant grade of 10%f. This would allow flexibility when the <br />industrial site development would occur. <br />A buffer zone between the industrial site and the wildlife area would <br />be necessary. This could consist of a heavily revegetated strip 200 to <br />500 feet wide that received periodic maintenance in the form of watering, <br />1 <br />