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• <br />About .5 acre of additional filling wag completed. Also as a result <br />of efforts to support the slope to the south of the Fountain Mutual Ditch, <br />fill was placed for a support berm below the ditch. It is expected this <br />berm will be completed in the next few months. <br />The west end of this berm was seeded, but the unusually dry conditions <br />this spring may not result in much success with this seeding. No <br />assessment of that can be made until about mid-summer. <br />The largest amount of reclamation actually occurred outside the permit <br />area. As a result of lowering the west side of the pit the adjacent <br />landowner requested Castle Concrete to grade their land so as to <br />topographically merge this land with their land. This area, totaling about <br />3 acres, was graded in 1987 and seeded in early April 1988. Because this <br />land is nearly level, it appears the seeding was considerably more <br />successful than that in the pit area which is on a south facing slope of <br />between 3:1 and 2:1 grade. <br />RULE 2.41 3 THE LOCATION AND NUMBER OF ACRES IN THE VARIOUS STAGES OF <br />RECLAMATION (BACRFILLED, GRADED, TOPSOIL REPLACED, REVEGETATED). <br />A total of about 6.5 acres of the operation is under some type of <br />reclamation. Some of this is contained in the highway slopes on the east <br />side of the operation, but the major part of the reclamation is within the <br />pit area, mostly associated with the Fountain Mutual Ditch. Furthermore, <br />during the last year, meetings have been held with adjacent landowners in <br />an attempt to control the drainage from the land to the north which has <br />been causing erosion problems on the slope above the ditch. No resolution <br />of the problem has been reached yet, but designs are in progress [o relieve <br />this problem. Until [hat problem is corrected, further revegetation of the <br />slope north of the ditch would be hopeless. <br />RULE 2.41 4 THE SPECIES OF VEGETATION PLANTED, THE LOCATIONS AND <br />APPROXIMATE DATES OF PLANTING. <br />The seeding occurred in early April 1988. As noted before, most of <br />the seeding was done on about 3 acres to the west of the operation on <br />adjacent land graded by Castle Concrete as per a request by the land owner. <br />But about .5 acre was seeded within the operation. The mixture used was: <br />SPECIES RATE ~ PLS/AC.-BROADCAST) <br />STANDARD CRESTED WHEATGRASS 5 <br />INTERMEDIATE WHEATGRASS 5 <br />PUBESCENT WHEATGRASS 5 <br />RUSSIAN WILDRYE 4 <br />SMOOTH BROME 6 <br />YELLOW SWEETCLOVER 1 <br /> 26 <br />Page 2 of 3 1988 SAND PIT ANNUAL REPORT <br />