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<br />UNITED STATES <br />DEPARTMENT OF <br />AGRICULTURE <br />~S o i 1 <br />Conservation <br />Service <br /> <br />4302 West 9thj St. Rd. <br />Greeley, Coloirado 80634 <br />October 22, 1986 <br /> <br />NOV 1 21986 <br />Ed Loloff <br />Ed Loloff Construction Co. <br />P.0. Box 518 <br />Kersey, CO 80644 <br />Dear Ed: <br />MANED LAN <br />RECLAMATION D VISION <br />Attached are detailed reclamation plans for the sequential reclarnatien at <br />your gravel pit in Section 4, TSN, R65W. This is a modification and <br />refinement of a draft plan dated May 13, 1985, which was semt to Nelsen <br />Engineers. <br />Seeding recommendations have changed for edges and waste areas because of <br />changes in mining plan and the handling of off-site water. With the e;:tra <br />moisture along this drainageway, we can use cereal grain strraw without <br />reservation. Mountain meadow hay is still preferred for pe0n-~a nently <br />abandoned roadway=_ because of typically dr-ougthy conditions, however, <br />clean spring barley straw applied in the fall is acceptable. <br />Fertilizer recemmendatran=_ have also changed. No nitrogen Will be needed <br />on wasted areas and edges because a legume has been added to the seed mitt. <br />Topsoiling won't be needed along edges because no topsoil wjll be stripped <br />or overburden deposited. Adequate topsoil will still need tlo be recovered <br />and stared to topsail abandoned roadways and storage areas. <br />Appro>:imately, 4.3 acre feet of topsoil will be needed to cover the 5.7 <br />acres of overburden placement areas and about 3 acre feet ,.gill be needed <br />to cover the abandoned roadways. Outside the perimeter of tlhe area to be <br />mined, an additional 3 acre feet could be used to topsoil 4 acres of <br />e::pOSed gravel subsoil in the area north and r..~est of the prdPOSed shop <br />area. <br />The visiual barrier also needed modification because not alll areas will be <br />filled or berrned with overburden. Filled areas not adjacent to the <br />diversion should be planted to eastern red cedar and caragarla. This area <br />should be clean tilled far weed control for about 7 years. In the fall of <br />the seventh year-, the seed mi;: for the permanently abandoned areas should <br />be broadcast and mulched, then mowed for „geed cr~ntrol for 2 years. <br />