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tracts. 1'hcse strcaon: are both perunnial strcao~s. 't'rout <br />Creek is considered to contain good fisheries. <br />Fish Creeh is fair co good in the upper reaches but, due to <br />poor water quality, is poor'in the vicinity of [he tract. <br />The gave fish population of Trout Crce}: consists o: SO per- <br />cent brool: trout, 1C percent cutthroat trout, and :0 percent <br />rainbow trout (Colorado DOW, 1972). The DOW stock catchable- <br />size rainbow [rout annually in Trout Creek above c.`.e proposed <br />mining site. There is some natural reproduction o. trout <br />species in Trout Creek, and the overall fish popul,::tion <br />is stable. The flow of Trout Creel: is interrupted at score <br />locations by beaver dams. <br />Studies conducted by Dames and ~;oore (1975) indicated a low <br />• ~ quality sports fishery in the ir~ediate vicinity o_ the <br />Energy Fuels mines (see Table 24), the major facto being the <br />overall water quality. <br />Overall water quality of Trout Creek is rated as fair for <br />trout, limited by water temperatures; 70° F is the maximum <br />temperature to which trout should be exposed. Water of the <br />Trout Creel: cratershed could approach 55-70° F, and above <br />average turbidity (sediment load transported by~stream) <br />would occur during the late sunnier and early Eall. Tl~e <br />physical quality of Trout Creelc riay also be classifiod <br />as fair to goad. Tlie pool-riffle (critical spawnin3 <br />and feeding habitat for trout) ratio in Trout Creek <br />• is approximately 50-SO (SO percent pools and 50 percent <br />110 <br />-.<< .. <br />