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- 'STATE OF COLORADO qoy Romer, Governor REFER 10 DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES DIVISION OF WILDLIFE `'°~~~RA~° o~,LW:.L GPPOFiUr~n'/Eid Pl 05En ~ ~- /~~ Perry D. Olson, Director + Qv 6060 8roatlway ,` Denver, Colorado 80216 A OF v` Telephone: (303) 297-1192 Larry Rogstad, District Wildliie t4anafer September 11a, 1990 1526 28th avenue court Greeley, Colorado, 80531 ph. 3$2-211,3 Lanell J, Curry, Current Planner pepartment of Planning Services, I:leld Co, 915 10th street Re: Case Number USR~921 Dear Lanell Mr. Sprague Mayger, of Asphalt Paving Company, and I have had several discussions during the last several weeks concerning the Perry Pit proposal in the Wattenburg vicinity. In these discussions Mr, Mayger hae agreed in principle to the recom- mendations expressed by the .Division of Wildlife in letter to your agency. Asphalt Paving, according to Mr, Mayger, has a sincere desire to reclaim the Perry Farm in a manner that will be environmentally sound and consistent with surrounding land uses. Pir. Mayger has expressed a concern to the Division about its recotrmtendatione concern- ing the mining of area txo of the Ferry Property, As you remember, area two currently is covered by a shallow cattail marsh. Gravel extraction in this area would destroy the marsh, a valuable wildlife habitat. The Division recommended that Asphalt Paving leave a 50 foot perimeter o£ undisturbed marsh around mining area 2, It also rec- ommended shallow sloping of backfill during reclamation (no steeper than L:1) back to the remaining cattails to favor regrowth of emergent aquatic vegetation. The result xould be a pond/marsh complex of greater wildlife value than the existing habitat. Asphalt Faving.feels that to effectively mine the southwest portion of the property, area 2, it xill have to destroy the entire cattail area along the north boundry, It would also be economically necessary to leave a thirty Soot marsh buffer along the other portions of area 2, rather than the fifty foot buffer, Mr, Mayger has assured the Division that this is a necessity, and that Asphalt Paving xill xork closely with the Division to reclaim the area in a satisfactory manner, As stated in the earlier letter to your o££ice~ the I',ivision recognizes the need of the applicant to extract mineable deposits of gravel. The Divison and Asphalt Fav- ing have agreed to a compromise on the mining of area 2. The Division recognizes the need to remove all vegetation on the north boundry of area 2, and~aUthirty foot.` marsh buffer along; the surrounding boundries. In return, Asphalt raving will work closely with the Division in the reclamation of this portion of the property as a pond/marsh complex. Tom Lynch, District ~rlildli£e A`.anager in Arighton, or I viii work as a consultant to Asphalt Paving on this reclamation project. Asphalt PavinP has agreed to backfill the site to create highly irregular shorelines and/or islands and loafing sites, Shoreline slope will be shallow (no steeper than Lt:l) adjacent to existine cattails to stimulate emergent aquatic growth. Additional plantings of trees and shrubs will be necessary to increase wildlife value of the area. Seeding of up- land sites should include a wide variety of grasses and dryland legumes to increase site heterogeneity. DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES. Hamlel J. Barry, Executive Director WILDLIFE COMMISSION, George VanDenBerg, Chairman . Robert L. Freidenberg er, Vice Chairman . William F Hegberg. Secretary loon W. Cooper, Member . Rebecca L. Frank Member . Dennis Luttrell, Member . Gene B. Peterson, Member . Larry M Wright. Member