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Exhibit E• Reclamation Plan <br />Revised: May 2005 <br />Existing Conditions: <br />The operation has been operating for fifty years as a I10 Limited Impact Operation and <br />continues to do so today. The mining operation exists side by side with a general contracting business <br />that supplies concrete using batch trucks, a land leveling and excavation concern, and a concrete rubble <br />stockpiling site, which cover some forty acres of the property. These various concerns ebb and flow as <br />service demands rise;and fall. As the needs of the sand and gravel operation increase, the various other <br />concerns decrease their size in terms of area required for their operation. <br />The existing site has been covered in native grasses and weeds depending on the South <br />Platte River and other property uses. There is little or no topsoil on the site since the site is essentially an <br />alluvial deposit that is periodically flooded and has been continually mined for years. There is a buffer of <br />land between the dredging operation and the South Platte River, which has remained untouched for years. <br />This buffer is a wooden area of approximately five acres in size and is covered with native grasses and <br />weeds that provide nesting and protection to various birds. <br />Off-Site Impacts: <br />As previously stated, the mining operation has been in existence some fifty years and has <br />survived floods, changes in the regulatory environment, and continues to provide the citizens of Morgan <br />County with their sand and gravel needs.,The adjacent uses are listed below by direction: <br />North: A farming operation, eventually the lower portion of the farm will become <br />the site for a wastewater treatment facility. <br />East: A city park, owned and operated by the City of Fort Morgan and separated by State <br />Highway # 52. <br />South: Evaporation ponds, owned and operated by Western Sugar Company. <br />West: A drainage ditch, owned and operated by the Western Sugar Company and land owned <br />by the State of Colorado, Division of Wildlife, which is leased to the City of Fort. <br />Morgan as a wildlife habitat. <br />The impacts to the adjacent properties are very minimal, which can be attested to by their <br />very side by side existence for some fifty years. The mining operation does not create dust because the <br />mining activity is a hydraulic dredge. The South Platte River and the owner's office and maintenance <br />complex provides a buffer to the farming operation to the north. To the east, the Rainbow Bridge and <br />State Highway #52 provides a buffer to the City Park. To the south, evaporation ponds of the Western <br />Sugar Company, which are part of an industrial operation that employs Builders Aggregate periodically <br />to excavate the ponds as process water evaporates and the processing of sugar beets leaves a dirt residue. <br />To the west, the nature area has benefitted from the mining operation because the actual mining activity