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Varra Companies, Inc. <br />Office of Special Projects <br />8120 Gaize Street Frederick Colorado 80516 Telephone (970) 353-8310 Fax(970)353-4047 <br />and extents may occur as part of on-going operations, the application commits <br />to reclaim and revegetate to existing widths. <br />14. The Applicant will need to provide a flooding impact analysis <br />characterizing the flood path and flow velocities for flooding events expected <br />during the life of the operation. The Applicant will need to assess how much of <br />the pit or reservoirs will be flooded, how the flood waters will be safely returned <br />back to the main channel of the Cache La Poudre, and how the riverbank and <br />pitside banks will be protected from excessive erosion. <br />To our understanding, since operations are set back 100± feet from the Cache <br />La Poudre River, the operation is not responsible for streambank effects <br />unrelated to operations. Damage that may result from flooding is an Act of God, <br />and the operator will make repairs to flood effects, which will most likely take <br />the form of deposition of sediments and debris carried in from upstream impacts. <br />Since the floodplain will benefit from increased detention resulting from basin <br />formation, stream velocities will be empirically lower than over the existing <br />topography. <br />The greater velocities are anticipated in the designated floodway. Backwater <br />areas form as flood velocities decrease in distance from the river and its <br />floodway. Since soil or incidental stockpiles within the floodplain will not in <br />volume be greater than the resulting basin, flood waters will not be adversely <br />affected. To the contrary, the extraction activity will actually serve to establish <br />detention serving to mitigate any flood flows. No stockpiles are allowed within <br />the floodway except where they are below existing ground elevations. <br />Finally, flood paths will follow the existing floodplain topography, which will not <br />be adversely altered by operations. Any attempt to purposefully direct flood <br />waters could expose the operation to needless liability and will not be <br />attempted. The majority of operational effects such as processing and <br />stockpiling, will in general occur outside the floodplain, predominantly over <br />Tract A. <br />Varra Companies, Inc. correspondence to the Colorado Office of Mined Land Reclamation (OMLR) 7 <br />in reply to OMLR correspondence of 4 October 2010 - Western Sugar Reclamation Land Development Project <br />- M-2010-049.