_PERMIT FILE - M1991082 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

' EXHIBIT B ' SITE DESCRIPTION SOILS : A final soil survey for this area has not been completed by the Soil Conservation Service; only draft surveys are available . They are subject to change. Therefore , the soil description here is highly site specific and focus on the utility of the soil to the ' reclamation program. The Soil Conservation Service soil survey, even if completed, would be of limited value on this site . The scale of those soil surveys is rather large . For small sites like ' this experience shows that site specific descriptions that focus on the reclamation potential of the soil are more useful than utilizing the large scale soil surveys to describe the soil . Soils on this site are variable. They range from essentially none to a shallow, gravelly soil only a few inches deep. Even the best soils on the site are distinguished from subsoil only by the dark color produced by a small accumulation of organic matter in ' the upper one to four inches . This is not unusual for soils developed on weathered Pikes Peak Granite . Only in bottomland situations do rich and deep soils develop from this parent material . Most of this site , as shown on the maps , is sloping to some extent . The steeper the slope the worse the soil becomes . On natural slopes of about 2 : 1 or steeper, soil is essentially non- existent, ground level vegetation cover essentially none and erosional damages due to sheet washing evident . Any soil that originally existed on those steep slopes washed away long ago. ' This may have resulted from overgrazing or physical damages during the early days of Florissant . Soil properties pertinent to salvage and reclamation are rather strongly related to the vegetation cover and what appears to be some influence by historical disturbances . Some historical disturbances appear have recovered over the last several decades , but the influence of previous activities are still evident. in many ' areas . Soil salvage on the moderately undisturbed west side of the pit is possible where soil is sufficiently distinguishable from the subsoil parent material . This is generally true of lands dominated by more dense grass growth. On land dominated by tree growth, distinctive soil is absent or so thin that it amounts to little more than somewhat darkly stained parent material about 1 to 2 inches deep. The salvage of the soil will require careful work with a dozer . Where ground cover vegetation is occupied by grass plants that are at most 4 to 6 inches apart the soil will be stripped in a westward direction and windrowed along the west edge of the excavation area . It appears there is between 1 and 2 acres of land where soil might be salvaged to a depth of about two to four inches . The volume of the soil from this land will be about 400 cubic yards per acre or a total of 400 to 800 cubic yards of soil I 1 1