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1 <br /> LAND USE <br /> <br />' Description <br /> Weld County is located in the northeast portion of the State <br />' in the great plains area approximately 40 miles east of the <br /> Continental Divide. It contains 4,004 square miles and is <br />' the third largest County in Colorado. Weld County is bounded <br />' on the west by Larimer and Boulder Counties, on the east <br /> by Logan and Morgan Counties and on the south by Adams and <br /> Morgan Counties. The South Platte River and Interstates 805 <br /> and 25 cross the County. Most of the urban areas have been <br /> developed in the southwest portion. Weld County was incor- <br /> porated in November of 1885. At the present time, approxi- <br />' <br /> mately 81.5 percent of the land in the County is in private <br />' ownership. State owned lands total 6.0 percent, county and <br />municipal lands amount to .4 percent and 10.1 percent of the <br />' land is owned by the Federal Government. The Greeley West <br />' site is located approximately two miles northwest of the city <br />of Greeley. <br />Land Use <br />The floodplain and valley-fill deposits of the Cache La <br />' Poudre are a prime source of aggregate for the Greeley area. <br />Evidence of this fact can be seen in the number of mining <br />operations that have taken place in the vacinity of the <br />Greeley West site. Because these prime gravel bearing lands <br />are located in the floodplain of the Cache La Poudre River <br />' their development potential is rather limited without exten- <br />sive engineering work to provide the proper flood protection. <br />' Therefore, the land use choices in this apea are quite <br />' D-2 <br />