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• Topsoil Removal and Storage <br />The main portion of the loadout was located north and east of the <br />Roaring Fork River. This land is know as the Diamond A Parcel. <br />The Diamond A Parcel is being developed into a residential <br />community with a golf course and related retail establishments. <br />Work on the development continues as of April 1996. The Diamond <br />A Parcel was removed from the permit by the DMG's approval of TR- <br />15 on February 1, 1994. <br />Topsoil in the loadout area, including areas for the rail spur, <br />driveway, ponds, surge bin, haul road and conveyor, was removed <br />and stockpiled in a protected area away from possible sources of <br />contamination. <br />Because of the nature of the disturbance, involving almost <br />exclusively roadbed construction and ponds with no area-wide <br />excavations or deep disturbances, only 'functional' surface layer <br />was salvaged with subsoil left in place. The affected soils are <br />relatively homogeneous. In general, the rail spur and associated <br />areas occur on soils with a 12-inch surface layer which has been <br />taken up and stockpiled. The portion of the haul road which <br />occurs on irrigated hay meadow also yielded about 12-inches of <br />topsoil. Because of the steep slope and relatively barren <br />condition of the truck dump site, topsoil development has not <br />occurred to any salvageable extent. <br />• <br />• 4-80 Rev. 04-13-96 <br />