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<br />• Color photographs of several of the sample points were taken and are being maintained <br />in the permanent data file with the original field data sheets. <br />For field identification of the jurisdictional wetland areas, colored survey flags were <br />placed along the edges of the jurisdictional wetland areas. <br />RESULTS <br />Three distinct areas were identified as jurisdictional wetlands within the study area. <br />The first area was a segment of the unnamed drainage through the center of the study <br />area. This jurisdictional wetland comprises 5500 square feet or 0.125 acres in area. A <br />second jurisdictional wetland area was the irrigation ditch and immediate area along the <br />north edge of the study area. The last jurisdictional wetland identified was the spring <br />and immediately adjacent azea on the north face of the terrace slope. As irrigation <br />ditch and the terrace spring will be avoided by the planned project, they were not <br />sampled or mapped for size. Spring Creek did not qualify as a jurisdictional wetland <br />within the study area. Figure 1 illustrates the jurisdictional wetland boundaries and the <br />sample point locations. Appendix 1 contains the approved Army Corps of Engineers <br />field data sheets for wetland delineations. <br />SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS <br />Jurisdictional wetlands were identified within the study area at the Carol Ann Pit site in <br />Eagle County. Colorado on September 9, 1996. The area within the study area, which <br />could be potentially disturbed by the project, and which met the 1987 USACE Wetland <br />Delineation Manual criteria for jurisdictional wetlands was identified, sampled, and <br />flagged. This area was a drainage swale traversing the center of the study area. This <br />area is a low topographic area which receives surface runoff from adjacent undeveloped <br />and developed sources and three ground water springs along it's course. This area <br />drains into an irrigation ditch below the upper terrace at the north boundary of the <br />study area. The irrigation ditch flows east and downgradient to a marshy area within <br />an agricultural field adjacent to the Eagle River. <br />u <br />-4- <br />