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2.04.7 <br />~ RESPONSE continued <br />and area under reclamation comprise the Southern affected area. <br />The coal stockpile, railroad loadout facility and their ancilliary <br />facilities comprise the Northern affected area. <br />The Southern affected area is and will continue to be situated <br />entirely within the Hayden Gulch and Dowden Gulch watersheds, <br />~- <br />tributaries of the East Fork of the Williams Fork River, located <br />to the Southwest. Additionally, approximately 145 acres of <br />unaffected land within the Southern portion of the proposed <br />permit area are within the Temple Gulch and Watering Trough <br />Gulch drainages which comprise part of the Dry Creek water- <br />shed, a direct tributary of the Yampa River, located to the <br />north of the permit area. <br /> The Northern of#ected area is situated entirely within the lower <br /> portion of the Dry Creek watershed. <br />• <br /> The railspur connecting the Northern portion of the proposed <br /> permit area with the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railraod <br /> mainline cross es the Walker and Shelton ditches. Routt County <br />Road 53 parallels segments of Watering Trough Gulch and Dry <br />Creek between the two portions of the proposed permit area. <br />The maximum extent of the hydrologically adjacent area encom- <br />passing the proposed permit area would be confined to the <br />Hayden Gucch, Dowden Gulch and Dry Creek watersheds. <br />The maximum extent of the hydrological general area encom- <br />passing the proposed permit area would be the Yampa River <br />watershed; principally that portion containing the Williams Fork <br />below Willow Creek and the main stem of the Yampa itself from <br />slightly upstream of the town of Hayden to its confluence with <br />the Williams Fork. <br />