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ERODE Icooeo~ea ~m P~ t> U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the agency responsible for granting the permit. The group will seek a permit to dig a channel toward the middle of the river in an attempt to route wa- ter away from the east bank. The request also is to install deCletton, which would slow water as it pasxd along that stretch oC the east bank. Animas Aggregates and Ron Pettigrew, an executive at Burnett Construction, which has [wo gravel operations downriver of the affected site, said [hey would don- ate concrete blocks as deflectors, as well as supply heavy equipment needed (or the project. Black is to conduct an engineer- ing study to determine how the project should be done. A rough estimate was that the parties could pay up to 11,000 each for this year's work. The group also agreed to replace trees and shrubs that were washed away, a move sought by DOW biologist Rick Sherman. According to Sherman, the riverbank vegitation was "pretty much destroyed." He said that 90 percent of the atale's wildlife ux riverside vegitation at some time to survive. Sherman and Bill Herring, civil engineering technician for the Corps of Engineers, said the com- bination of the deflectors and vegitation would protect thr east bank. The men said the group pt.,b- ably could get the permit within 25 days, giving them time to finish the project before this year's runoff. In the meantime, Sherman sug- ges[ed that along-term river pro- tection plan be devrluped between Trimble lane and Baker's bridge, a stretch that hosts (our aggregate operations. "We would like to see an overall management plan of the river," he said. "If the river's managed prop• erly, everyone wins."