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• WATER AVAILABILITY CHARACTERISTICS <br />Agricultural Activities <br />A description and map of agricultural activities in the proposed <br />permit and adjacent area is provided under Rule 2.04.3. Map 2, Fish <br />Creek Tipple Land Use, shows that the land use of the adjacent area is <br />cropland and pastureland. <br />Soils and vegetation information concerning the proposed permit area <br />are summarized below. The soils and vegetation characteristics found <br />in the proposed permit area are also found in the floodplains on <br />Middle and Fish Creeks, as demonstrated by Map 8, Fish Creek Tipple <br />Soils and Map 9, Fish Creek Tipple Premining Vegetation. Therefore, <br />the descriptions of soils and vegetation in the proposed permit area <br />are also applicable to the downstream reaches of the intermittent and <br />perennial streams in the adjacent area. <br />Soils <br />• The soil types found along the intermittent streams in the proposed <br />permit area are Yampa (12A), Unnamed 30 (30A) and Silas (55A). <br />Locations of these soils are found on Map 8, Fish Creek tipple Soils. <br />Descriptions of these soils can be found in Exhibits 5 and 6, Soil <br />Profile Descriptions and Soil Mapping Unit Descriptions, respectively. <br />The mapping of these areas was done by the USDA Soil Conservation <br />Service with an Order 3 sampling intensity. <br />Mottling of the soils in the root zone is a characteristic of <br />subirrigation which is identified in standard SCS soil descriptions. <br />The Yampa (12A) and Unnamed 30 (30A) soil types are described as being <br />mottled from the surface horizon down to the water table. All three <br />of the soils are described as having been formed in mixed alluvium. <br />From these descriptions of mottling in the root zone of Yampa (12A) <br />and Unnamed 30 (30A), it can be concluded that at certain times of the <br />year soil moisture is high enough to saturate the root zone. <br />• <br />2.06-14 <br />