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C~ STATE OF COLORADO Roy Romer, Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES DIVISION OF WILDLIFE 4N EOUAL OPPO RTU NiTV EMPLO VER Perry D. Olson. Director 8080 Broatlwey Denver. Coloratlo 80218 Telephone: (3031 2971192 June 20, 1990 III IIIIIIIIIIIII III • s99 ~~~k~~~ JUN "i 1~~'. NiINLG W:~~~. i~ECI_AN?PtTlflhl fTIVI"'' `J TD: Greg Squire - Mined Mined Land Reclamation Division FRDM: Dave Weber, Habitat Biologist ~.~ SUBJ: Comments on Mobile Pre-Mix Howe Pit Revision File M-78-052 PEFER i0 Thanks for giving us a chance to comment on this revised application. We are quite familiar with this proposal because we worked closely with the applicant and the Adams County planning staff when it went through the county clearance procedure. I believe that Adams County has approved a plan which incorporated several of our suggestions for mitigating loss of wildlife habitat. The application submitted to you appears to follow that plan with a couple of important exceptions. They are: 1) it is our understanding that both the relocated Bull Seep and the newly created First Creek channel were~o be designed with wildlife habitat in mind, i.e. wetland bottom, tree and shrub plantings, some meandering, etc. The plan you provided us indicates that only Bull Seep would be so designed and that First Creek would be a typical grass-lined channel of minimal value to wildlife. We feel that if wildlife values of the vicinity are to be fairly mitigated, the improvement of both channels is important. 2) the design of the revised Bull Seep for wildlife seems to follow closely our suggestions to Mobile Pre-Mix, except that we asked for a few small areas of pooled water through the use of small "check dam" type structures. This idea apparently has not been incorporated into the Bull Seep plan and, as mentioned above, in First Creek either. These are our only remaining concerns as the other details were worked out at the county level and Mobile Pre-Mix has done a good job incorporating them into this application. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. I am returning the copy of the application you sent by way of inter-agency mail as requested. cc: Pat Tucker, CDOW John Hickman, Mobile Pre-Mix Ann Bockencamp, Adams County DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, Hamlet J. Barry, Executive Director WILDLIFE COMMISSION, William R. Hogberg, Chairman . Dennis Luttrell. Vice Chairman • Eldon W. Cooper. Secretary Felix Chavez. Member • Rebecca L. Frank Member • Gene B. Peterson, Member • George VanDen Berg, Member • Larry M. Wright, Member