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SITE DESCRIPTION EXHIBIT B <br />1. Location and General Environmental Information <br />The site is located at 5600' elevation in the first alluvial terrace above the North Fork of the <br />Gunnison River. Currently, Cecil and Patricia Farnsworth have operated two river harvesting 110 <br />gravel pits very close to the proposed permit area. One is known as the Farnsworth Gravel Pit #2 <br />(M-1982-154) and is permitted immediately west of the proposed site and the other is known as the <br />River Bottom Pit (M-1992-100) which was permitted under the River Bottom Land Corporation on <br />the Farnsworth property. This site includes a portion of the river as well as the processing area north <br />of the river which is active as of 2004. These azeas aze seen on Map B-1. Access to the River Bottom <br />Pit site is directly from State Highway 133. Access to the proposed permit area south of the river is <br />from 4005 Lane, a County Road, which ends at the permit area. <br />According to the landowner, the site was leveled years ago by bulldozer to facilitate irrigation, ex- <br />cept for a small depression dug out of the azea which nowcontains aman-made wetland and a pond <br />of approximately 0.57 acres of water surface which was also excavated from the terrace in the past. <br />Farnsworth has obtained water rights for the evaporation of this pond. The pond will become part of <br />the larger pond to be left from the new proposed mining of this 110 permit. Wetlands also exist a) <br />in a ditch that exists south of the south end of the permit azea, b) along the slopes of the river, as <br />shown on Map B-1 and c) in a fringe of 4' width along the existing pond in the southwest corner of <br />the permit area. The south end of the permit azea will avoid a grove of ]azge cottonwood trees which <br />have been in place for many decades. <br />2. Site Geoloev <br />The site will mine approximately 7.5 acres of the first alluvial terrace above the river. This gravel is <br />recent alluvium of the Quaternary age and is normally no more than ZS feet thick. Immediately be- <br />North Fork Pit March 04 4 <br />