PERMFILE64052

• Permit No: M1980120
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 8/27/1980
• Doc Name: KOENIG PIT FN 80-120 PIERCE PIT FN 80-121 DAVIS RANCH PIT FN 80-122 APPLICATIONS FOR REGULAR IMPACT
• From: MLR
• To: WELD COUNTY DEPT OF ENGINEERING
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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DEPAflTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
D. Monte Pascoe, Executive Director
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MINED LAND)CLAMA'TION
423 C'~entennial Building, 1313 Sherman Street
Denv$r, Colorado 80203 Tel. [phone]
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David C. Shelton
Director
August 27, 1980
Mr. Wayne Smyth
Weld County Department of Engineering
P. 0. Box 758
Greeley, Colorado 80631
RE: Koenig Pit
Pierce Pit
Davis Ranch Pit
applications for
adequacy
Dear Mr. Smyth:
- Our File: N80-120
- Our File: k80-121
- Our File: X80-122
regular impact permits
for open pit gravel operations,
I have reviewed the above applications for adequacy and have the following
questions, comments, and suggestions which are intended to aid you in bringing
your application into full compliance with the law and to the satisfaction of
the Mined Land Reclamation Board. Please address each of the following items
in detail:
RE: Davis ranch and Koenig Pits:
In order to provide fora more suitable wildlife environment, please allow
for some irregular patterns in the shorelinE (with shallows if possible)
and in the pit floor. Such irregular patterns in the shoreline tend to
induce avifauna and terrestrial wildlife to [he area in preference to non-
irregular patterned sihorelines typically created by such operations. Further,
irregularities in the pond floors provide suitable shelter for fish.
2. RE: Koenig Pit:
Please give a quantitative description of the percent cover of the major
plant species presently occurring on the site.
3. RE: Davis Ranch and Koenig Pits:
Please acknowledge that the operation shall maintain a minimum 100 foot
buffer strip between the operation and the Cache La Poudre River and the
South Platte River, respectively.
4. RE: Davis Ranch, Koenig, and Pierce Pits:
Please acknowledge that topsoil will be removed, stockpiled and kept
segregated from other materials.
Please acknowledge that topsoil will be removed prior to disturbance of