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6 <br /> <br />' <br /> Scenics <br />' This foothill area comprises a middleground or foreground for visual <br /> pictures of the mountains behind as viewed from Colorado Highway PJo. 8 <br /> and to a lesser extent, U.S. Highway No. 285 as they converge on Turkey <br /> Creek Canyon. The surrounding foothills include hiking trails and a unit <br />' of Denver Mountain Parks. These attract viewers. Cooley Gravel Company <br /> has been reasonably successful in concealing the quarry and crushing <br /> operations from view from main travel routes. The uppermost parts of <br />' the quarry were visible in 1972 from below only from a lightly travelled <br /> unsurfaced road. It is impossible to conceal it from above, however. <br /> It is fully visible from several places in the Denver Mountain Parks tract. <br /> Expansion of the quarry has made it more visible from Highways 8 and 285 <br />' also. <br /> Eight features of the operation were found that detracted from esthetics <br /> as viewed from one or more points along nearby roads: <br /> 1. The haul road from the scalehouse to the highway. <br />' 2. The scalehouse. <br /> 3. A deep roadcut and fill between the scalehouse and the crusher <br /> area. <br /> 4. Edge of the fill that makes up the crusher site. <br />' 5. A service road cut around a hillside to the top of the quarry. <br /> 6. Equipment house near the top of the quarry. <br />' 7. The sides of the quarry. <br />8. Power and telephone lines, <br /> The negative visual impacts of most factors can be reduced. Methods are <br />' covered in "Recommendations." <br /> Recommendations to Optimize Impacts <br /> and Rehabilitate Disturbed Areas. <br />' Company Actions on Recommendations. <br /> Water <br /> <br /> Recommendations <br /> As the quarry has no significant impact on normal flow from Strain Gulch <br />' or on water quality, all recommendations pertained to potential flood, <br /> 1. Provide for passage of the 100-year flood flow, preferably by <br />laying pipe, or pipe alternated with open channel, through the <br /> operations area. <br />' 2. Be sure a channel is kept open to the underground pipes. <br />3. Install debris catchers or provide for debris settlement <br />' above the inlet so the inlet cannot be blocked. <br />4. Install a drop-in, storm-sewer-type opening to drain the <br />' operating area into the underground pipe. <br />1 <br />