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SITE AND PROJECT DESCRIPTION -- c The Climax Mine (Climax) intends to construct a pump station and attendant features for pumping water from the East Fork of the Eagle River (the East Fork) into Eagle Park Reservoir. The reservoir is owned by Eagle Park Reservoir Company (EPRCo). The design, construction, and commissioning of the East Fork Pump Station by Climax is an obligatory part of the 1998 sale of the reservoir to EPRCo. The pump station and attendant features including the discharge pipeline and electrical power supply will be located on property owned by Climax. The boundary of U.S. Forest Service (USES) lands is nearby, both to the pump station and the access road to the site. The construction of the pump station will not encroach on USES lands and, indeed, a wider buffer will be established by re-alignment of the access road. The location of the site is shown on Figure 1. Figure 2 is a site plan that shows the relative locations of the proposed pump station and intake, the access roads, the wetland sites, and potential mitigation areas. Figures 2 through 10 show more details of the surveyed wetland boundaries. Photographs of the wetland and stream sites are also included. Photographs of the Sample Point evaluations are included with the data forms. Water will be diverted from the East Fork to the pump station through a 20-inch diameter pipe. The diversion structure will also include aloes-flow bypass gate that will prevent diversions unless the natural stream flow exceeds 1.5 cfs. The State of Colorado has acquired a minimum stream flow water right for the 1.5 cfs, which will be met by the bypass. The diversion structure will be a permanent encroachment or impact on the stream channel up to the elevation of ordinary high waterline. The pump station foundation will straddle the streambed of an unnamed tributary of the East Fork just above its confluence with the East Fork. That tributary is an intermittent flow channel that is also the channel through which the reservoir releases are conveyed. The pump station will not divert from the tributary channel. The pump station will include three vertical turbine pumps controlled by level probes in the wet-well of the pump station that is filled by the 20" intake pipe. The footprint of the pump station foundation will be a permanent encroachment and impact to the streambed up to the ordinary high water line of the channel.