Prefeasibility Access Road Design-Revised
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WYDEQ regulations. Guidance for this is provided in WYDEQ Guideline No. 2 –
Vegetation. The seed mixture will:
1.
Contain no fewer than four herbaceous species, unless the proposed land
use requires fewer species.
2.
Contain the native dominant herbaceous species which support the post-
mining land uses.
3.
If needed, contain additional species native to the region which support the
post-mining land uses.
4.
Contain naturalized, introduced species only if additional herbaceous species
are needed, or if suitable, native species are unavailable or if naturalized
species are superior for a specialized land use.
5.
Contain full shrub and/or sub-shrub species when these species will support
the post-mining land uses. If appropriate, to increase post-mining species
diversity, shrub mixtures may be developed and seeded separately from the
herbaceous mixtures.
6.
Contain native forb species if natural reinvasion of forbs will be limited by
site-specific conditions.
Seed mixtures for all post-mining communities which will be jointly used by
livestock and wildlife should include full shrub and/or sub-shrub species.
The closure objectives for the areas which do not currently have existing
roads will be to remove the road surfacing, re-grade the road corridor to pre-
construction contours and to re-vegetate. The reclamation will also include
the planting of trees within the road corridor.
IV
SURVEY AND ROW
These roads were first surveyed in the late 1890’s and early 1900’s with no set
standards for engineering of rural roads. As courthouse research was conducted it
became evident that the roadways have not had any formal width associated with
them. It has been standard practice to make the rural roads in this area have a 66
foot width. In most cases the center line is on a section or aliquot line and each
owner shares the Right-of-Way with 33 feet on each side of the section line. In this
particular case the roadway was not able to be set along the aliquot lines.
Discussions with the county officials have further reinforced our conviction of the 66
foot nominal width for the roads. During the research process we found that some
of the roadways in the area have had the alignment moved substantially from what
