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~ ~. <br />JOHN WARD: <br />BRAD JANDS: <br />governing body, mainly the City Council, but this wasn't... ~ <br />So there is no zoning problem. <br />That is all I wanted to clarify right from the start, wo we did get to <br />resolve that. Excavation will occur in four stages, thru the year 2015 and <br />will result in the creation of a series of ponds designed to facilitate <br />final reclamation of affected land for wildlife habitat. The site will be <br />mined wet to an average depth of 15 Feet, approximately 200,000 tons of <br />material will be excavated each year and will affect approximately five acres <br />per year. Approximately 1/3 of the sand and gravel mined will be fines and will <br />remain at the site. Three of the 15 feet of material to be mined is over- <br />burden and topsoil. Topsoil will be removed, stockpiled and kept segregated <br />from overburden. Topsoil should be able to be reapplied to affected area <br />to a depth of 6 inches or greater. Overburden and fines will be used to <br />construct berms and also dividers between lakes. Irregularity of shorelines <br />and pond bottoms to facilitate wildlife habitat will be provided. <br />The next information is important that the staff has some problems with it <br />and that is why I am going through this. The applicant proposes to mine <br />the entire area such that individual ponds will be created by creating <br />dividers as opposed to leaving dividers or buffers between ponds during <br />the excavation. The applicant proposes to reclaim the area concurrently ~ <br />with mining. As part of that reclamation, cottonwoods and willow will be <br />transplanted along the shorelines of screening mounds located along the i <br />St. Vrain and adjacent boundaries. <br />A specific seed mirture and planting regime has yet to be presented to the <br />Division but the applicant has requested the SCS to develop a revegetation <br />plan and does state that such a plan would be used. <br />In order to return stability to the previously mined area to a status quo <br />situation; the applicant has agreed to create a 100 foot wide buffer along <br />St. Vrain Creek, along that portion of the creek affected by previous mining <br />activities. The berm will be constructed to an elevation of 4821 feet which <br />approximates the origianl elevation of that portion of the bank, or a status <br />quo situation which occurred prior to the previous mining activities. <br />Rip-rap will be applied to the stream side portion of the constructed <br />buffer. The applicant proposes to use salvaged concrete as rip-rap. <br />A 404 permit with the Army Corps of Engineers has been applied for in order <br />to allow for r.ip rapping. Additionally, the applicant proposes a 50 foot <br />wide buffer, which will follow existing contours in elevation between the <br />area to be permitted and John Slovek's property. Considerable erosion <br />