APPCOR11534

• Permit No: C1992081
• IBM Index Class Name: Application Correspondence
• Doc Date: 4/14/1993
• Doc Name: MEMO TO FILE PERMIT APPLICATION REVIEW DESIGNATION OF DRY CREEK AS AN ALLUVIAL VALLEY FLOOR
• From: DMG
• To: FILE
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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MEMO TO FILE "ti6aef s. E°ne
Dwis,nn Director
FILE ~: C-92-081
OPERATOR: Hayden Gulch Terminal, Inc.
MINE: Hayden Gulch Loadout
DATE: April 14, 1993
REC SPEC: Stephen Wathen
BUHJECT: Permit Application Review:
Designation of Dry Creek as an Alluvial Valley Floor
PERSONS CONTACTED: Larry Routten, Dave Berry (DMG)
HOW CONTACTED: In-person
COMMENTS:
Larry is uncomfortable with, at this time, not designating Dry
Creek as an AVF for the following reasons.
Previous Division findings seem to support the contention that
Dry Creek is an AVF. Carl Mount, in interpreting the study
done by Keammerer Study (1990) seemed to feel that at least a
portion of Dry Creek was an AVF (Seneca II-W, Findings
Document, RN-O1). Dan Mathews, in the Seneca II-W Findings
Document for PR-O1, stated that major portions of Dry Creek
would be considered an AVF in lieu of further information from
Peabody to the contrary.
2. In the Keammerer Study, as given in Attachment 14-3 of the
application, it is stated that the area of the Loadout (most
of Sections 14 and 15) is native rangeland supporting
saline/alkaline greasewood shrublands that are not
subirrigated. However, just below the Loadout rail loop
proper the stream channel is described as being not as
incised, the water as being closer to the surface and and the
water as flowing in the stream. Indeed, water from Dry Creek
at this point is being diverted to irrigate hay fields.
Seneca II-W Exhibit 16-3, also part of the Keammerer Study,
delineates this area as native rangeland, whereas, HG Loadout,
Exhibit 4-1, documents at least two fields (owned by HG
Loadout, Inc.) present.
The question is 1) Could or are these two fields (and perhaps