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~•, , <br />UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT SOIyLI <br />OF AGFICULTURE SERV] <br />~`t(ff/,6/7° C Cep Ci~~ <br />February 16, 1993 <br />T0: City of Cripple Creek>> <br />FF:OM : Leon S . 1•'.ot , UC~JC~- <br />SUE.JECT: Gravel F'it on ELM land--Section 3~, T14 R69 <br />Sack:ground Informer+_ion <br />The site of the proposed gravel operation is in the <br />Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 32, <br />T14S R69W, bth F'.M. The site is north and west of Gillett, <br />in Teller County, The elevation of the area is <br />appro>:imately 97VV feet, with mean annual rainfall of about <br />18 inches and additional amounts of moisture in the farm of <br />snow, Current land use is grazeable rangeland, and only a <br />limited amount of shrubs are present on the site. See <br />attached copies of aerial and topographic information for <br />site location information. <br />Soils have not been mapped in the area yet as the Teller <br />County Soil Survey is still being carried out, Soils <br />generally correspond to the R1-Raleigh, very gravelly SL unit-- <br />see attachments. The site is just_ east of Fourmile F'oad, <br />and tapers to the east and southeast to an intermittent <br />drainageway--the upper reaches of West Seaver Cree4::, Slopes <br />range from 3 percent on the upper, flatter part of the site, <br />to about S to 1~? percent on the lower part of the unit. <br />Mean average air temperature is appro~imately 42 degrees F. <br />On February 4, 1993 .Jesse Eielz and myself made a site visit <br />to the area. Vegetative types were informally inventoried, <br />due to the snow cover preventing a mare in-depth review, and <br />the results are listed below. <br />Grasses: Arizona fescue, prairie junegrass, slimstem <br />and mountain muhiy, <br />Shrubs: Shr+_;b6y cinquefoil, fringed sagebrush and <br />rabbitbrush. <br />Forbs: F~ensteman, asters, herba~_eo+_;s cinquefoil , and <br />buckwheat. <br />Reclamation F'tan, and Comments <br />The city plans to use Fourmile Road as a haul road to reach <br />Highway 67, due to its immediate pro;:imity to the gravel <br />site. From b to 8 inches of topsoil will be left on the <br />site after mining, from soil stocl::piled at the commencement <br />ION CRIP'P'LE CREEIi <br />