1979-02-28_PERMIT FILE - M1978352 (5)

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• s If RW: Did you get to the water table in that MH: Pardon me RW: Do they get to the water table in that MH: No, they didn' t indicate that they would be getting into any water and I think that the indication on this is that primarily no discharge is going to be required. on the pit so no NPDES permit is required. JS: Is that a drainage ditch, Mark or an irrigation MH: I believe it ' s irrigation ditch, ok, the gravel is about 40 to 50 feet deep but because of the ditch they can only mine 30 to 35 feet over the particular phase 1 and phase 2, without disrupting the ditch - access to the site would be via an existing railroad crossing htat Mr. Kerd spoke of before which is H ght here, it ' s outside the affected land. Uh, and also this road that shows up on the map is continuing on down around here The Uh, timetable of the operation is 3 phases about 5 years ain each phase. Uh, water for the operation will be drawn from a from sump wells located along the ditch end of the ditch along the northern boundary of the affected land. They have an easement crew to uh aceuire from the owner to acquire this water and apply it to the adjudication and indications that I got from the attorney in Glenwood Springs' is that they should have approval shortly. Uh, they have shown possible sites in here for the con- crete plant and a hot mix plant but at this time there's no plans to put those in and if they do, they seek approval of the Board. The reclamation plan is basically is to return the land to the range land. Where the existing soil or the plant growth medium is inadequate, uh as completeion of the mining the mining of the particular areas, the soils owuld be hauled in to produce a depth of at least 4 inches irrigation would not be used, primarily because of the extremely poor soil , pour water on it with the gravel deposit there, it soaks down into the ground very rapidly. Uh, broadcast fertilization would be used to improve the nutrient levels in the plant growth medium. Range character would fit other areas in the surrounding lands which basically is pasture grasses , sagebrush also there' s , when you get down below the ditch here you notice there' s groves of trees and shrubs . . but that ' s at the lower elevation. Probably deriving a lot of water from seepagefrom the ditch that would be running down from the rive as well as groundwater from the river. So this is upon terrace, the final slopes would be a 2 to 1 along here, so there would be a 2 to 1 slope coming up to the railroad right of way. The reclamation would occur in close correspondence to the mining of the beginning at within the pahse that they are presently mining at. They would seed the area with crested wheatgrass, pubescent wheatgrass , indian ricegrass , western wheatgrass and streambank wheatgrass and in view of the droughty condition of the site, it is and not much water being held in a fairly thin soil I think that the seed mixture particularly with a streambank wheatgrass , indian ricegrass in there and a bunchgrass together that they' re both quite drought resistgnt they' ll have a good chance of success in revegetation although it ' s probably going to be somewhat slow in developing. I don' t see any other problems elsewhere in the application. I think this is an oppor- tunity to bring about some pretty good reclamation on some rather severely disturbed land right now. Uh, we do have, we did receive 3 objections , 3 letters of objection, the first letter of objection on top there is the on from Mr. Kerd, the Denv er Rio Grand RR, basically what this does is comment on