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Reclamation Plan Exhibit E <br />1. General Reclamation Plan <br />As the gravel operation is being proposed and operated by local residents with long standing roots in <br />the community, it is their goal to reclaim the land from the mining operation into an aesthetically <br />pleasing environment. It will leave little trace of its use for gravel mining and provide a model for <br />future reclamation projects. <br />Most of the mining pits will be backfilled with overburden and fill material and topsoil from the site as <br />well as imported from off site in order to establish the layout shown on Map F. The areas not <br />backfilled will be allowed to fill with water to produce lakes of various shapes and sizes. The <br />maximum slope of any of the lake shores will be 5H:1V to the water line, and 3H:1V from below the <br />water line to the bottom. <br />The visual screening berms surrounding the processing area will be removed at the end of mining. <br />Various landscape berms with tree plantings that contribute to the post mine land use of wildlife <br />habitat will be left in place. These berms will have a maximum of 3H:1 V sideslopes and will be fully <br />vegetated by the end of the mine life. Any temporary berm installed on site that is designed to be in <br />place longer than 12 months will be sloped to no more than 2H:1V and seeded. <br />Topsoil will be placed on site at a thickness of 12 inches in all areas. While fill material will have to be <br />imported to achieve the reclamation contours, all of the topsoil will come from stripping of the mining <br />areas. The processing area berm will be used to topsoil the processing area. <br />Steamboat Sand and Gravel Pit, April 2012 E - <br />