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• Additional Study on Alluvial Valley Floore_ <br />An independent report was prepared in 1982 by ERO Resources Corporation on the <br />possible existence of an alluvial valley floor in Red Wash drainage. The report <br />entitled "Red Waeh Drainage Basin -Alluvial Valley Floor Study" is available <br />through the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Division and through Western <br />Fuels-Utah, Inc.. Summary and Conclusions of Lhe 150 page report are presented <br />below. <br />Summary and Conclusions <br />Red Wash Basin has been described in detail Lo evaluated the existence of an <br />alluvial valley floor. No part oP the Red Wash drainage can be classified as an <br />alluvial valley floor in the regulatory eense (2.06.8(3)(b), Regulations of CMLRD <br />Por Cosl Mining, 1981). Although Red Wash has s narrow strip of unconsolidated <br />etreamlaid deposits along Lhe main stem, there are not sufficient suitable land or <br />• water resources to support agricultural activities. There is no historic use of <br />the area for irrigation. The area is not potentially irrigable based on low water <br />yield, poor water quality, unsuitable soils and rough topography. The small strip <br />of vegetation enhanced by natural flood or subirrigation ie along the lower <br />channel and is not significant to the carrying capacity of the grazing allotments <br />in the area. <br />• <br />(rev. 1 /86) I I. D- 2 3 <br />