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6.3.3 Exhibit B-Site description (a) A description of the vegetation and soil characteristic in the area of the gravel pit are as follows: VEC~fATION: The site of the pit is part of the shortgrass prairie whish consists of 80-90% grasses, 5-10% forbs aryl 2-10% shrubs. The daninant species in the potential plant camn~nity are Blue Crams, Western Wheatgrass and Creen Needlegrass. SOII, CI-]ARP,CI'ERISTICS: Safianta Loam, 1 to 3% slopes. '19~is level soil is on terraces and uplarrls. 'T'he Satt3r~ta series consists of deep, well drained soils that formed in mixed alluvial and wind-deposited material. Included with this soil in mappinc7 are a few small areas of soils that are more sloping or less sloping. Also included are a few small areas of Fort Collins, Nunn, aryl Altvan soils. 'typically, the surface layer is loam about seven inches thick. The upper part of the subsoil is a clay loath andis about sixteen inches thick. The substratum is a loam about twenty-one inches thick over a fine sandy loam extending to sixty inches or more. Permeability is moderate, and the available water capacity is high. Reaction is mildly alkaline below that depth. Runoff is slight, and the hazard of erosion is slight to moderate. This unit is a loamy Foothill range site. Capability emit is IIe-1 Irri- gated, IIIe-6 Dryland (b) Man-made structures within 200 feet of the pit include: -Barbed wire fence, approximately 120 feet north of the north edge of the pit. It is owned by Fdwin and Opal Turner, 12705 N. Co. Rd. # 5, Wellington, CO. Shown on Exhibit E, Map. -Electrical transportation tower and power line, owned by the United States Dept. of Energy Western Arcs Power Admistratirn. Local contact, Loveland Area Office, P.O.BOx 3700, Loveland, ~ 80539. Shown on Exhibit E, Map. (c) The pit is located in an acid region with very little rainfall (13" S' r year avers e, accordi to the De of ~ )• ~~ pe g ng pt. Agriculture Soil Con- ~ ~s servation District). No streams, springs, lakes, stock rater ponds „ S° or aquifers would receive drainage frvn the affected area. In the ~~ unlikely event of excess rainfall, the water would flow into an un-named dry creek bed and into a 64" concrete culvert under the state highway west of the pit, and into a'36" culvert approximately 300 feet south of the 64" culvert. (d) A statement fran the Colorado Division of Wildlife Technician, Tom Ostertaa of the Wellington State Wildlife Area is enclosed.