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' P¢ge 2. Mined A Reclamation Board. • <br /> adequate opportunity to review and respond to that information <br /> before the Board ' s meeting. <br /> 2. The Deepe Farm site is designated as future Open Space on the <br /> Boulder Valley Comprehensive flan. We believe it is appropriate <br /> that reclamation of the site be consistent with this planned <br /> future use . There]'ore , we ask that reclamation planning be <br /> coordinated among the Open Space Board of Trustees of the City <br /> of Boulder, the Mined Land Reclamation Board, and Flatiron <br /> Sand and Gravel Conpany. <br /> j. as Open Space , the property will have extensive use by the <br /> public , and in consequence , the potential fire hazard will be <br /> significant . x recent fire on park land adjacent to the <br /> Turnpike Pit has a--erted us to the seriousness of this problem. <br /> Fire Department personnel indicated that had that fire spread <br /> to the tall grasser on the nearby Turnpike Pit property, it <br /> is likely that homes in South Creek 7 would have sustained <br /> damage before the ]'ire could have been controlled and put out <br /> because the height of those grasses would have provided fuel <br /> for a fast-burning prairie-grass type fire . <br /> To reduce danger from fire to neighboring residential areas , <br /> we ask that : <br /> a) grasses used in the revegetation be species which will <br /> not grow ta:_1 enough to sustain a prairie-grass type <br /> fire. Grasses which grow no higher than two feet , <br /> and preferal)ly less (in the words of the Fire Marshall , <br /> "The shorter the better! ") , are much less likely to <br /> provide enough fuel to sustain such a fire . <br /> b) a buffer zone (minimum width 25 feet) , to serve as a <br /> fire break, be established along the boundary between <br /> the Deepe Farm site and adjacent land to the west , <br /> the direction in which lie the Table Mesa Mobile Home <br /> Park and several residential neighborhoods . Grass in <br /> this buffer zone should be quite short (to be a good <br /> fire break) and dense (to prevent wind and water erosion) . <br /> This zone should be designed and revegetated as directed <br /> by personnel qualified in the design of grassland fire <br /> breaks. <br /> 4. Very high winds in south Boulder are a matter of record and a <br /> fact of life. We ask that plants used in reclamation be those <br /> which will endure :successfully such periods of high winds , <br /> and assure adequate ground cover to prevent wind erosion on <br /> the site. <br /> 5. We request that irrigation not be cut off to future areas to <br /> be mined, and that landscaping in reclaimed areas and ground <br /> cover in future areas of mining be planted and/or maintained <br /> so as to provide a green and dust-free surface during the <br /> normal growing year. <br />