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COMPOSITE REPORT-Page 6 Application No. CUP 1484 screening, and washing plants. The operator has projected"vision lines" from three houses in the Manhattan Drive Neighborhood to the operations area, assuming construction of the berm (see Alternate Map V). The operator concludes that all Manhattan Drive homes would be completely blocked from all equipment within the "wash/screen crusher" area. Phase 2--see Alternate Map F: The Phase 2 area--west of STH 69 and south of the Badger Mill Creek floodplain area--would remain in agricultural production during initial Phase 1 operations. The operator anticipates Phase 2 operations would begin in 2002. The approximately 25 acre Phase 2 area would be fenced during and after operations. The topsoil and overburden scraped from the site would be used to create a 15 foot high berm around nearly all of this area, with the same degree of landscaping as in Phase 1 proposed along the Riverside Road and STH 69 frontages. Nearly all of Phase 2 is proposed for extraction via a similar procedure as in Phase 1. No off-site hauling would occur from the Phase 2 area. Materials are instead proposed to be transported to the Phase 1 area via a conveyor under STH 69. The operator suggests that a crusher may be required in this area if the extracted materials are too large to fit on the conveyor. Access for equipment within the Phase 2 area is proposed from an existing field entrance immediately south of the residential property along STH 69. D. Reclamation Plan: The operator proposes reclamation as a fish farm, with two habitat and fish farm ponds in the former extraction pit(see Maps G and H). Berms would be recontoured, with some materials removed to reclaim other portions of the site. Landscaping planted in the operations stage would not be removed. Reclamation of both Phase 1 and Phase 2 is not proposed until after all operations are complete. Phase 1 is not proposed to be reclaimed sooner because (1)processing and hauling is proposed to be based from this area for the duration and (2)the operator proposes to do some final extraction closer to the conveyor and operations area once Phase 2 is complete. E. Other Supporting Materials: The operator has submitted and revised other materials with this application. The main documents submitted include: 1. Hydrologic Study: This study, completed by Woodward-Clyde,projects the impact of the operation and reclamation on ground and surface water resources. The report concludes that the operation should not produce a significant change in ground water levels, recharge,temperature, or flow direction, therefore resulting in no negative impact on well capacity. The report also concludes that the pollution prevention approach would control release of toxic materials. Finally, the report suggests no surface water discharge to or quality problems in Badger Mill Creek. Woodward-Clyde completed a follow-up analysis of groundwater impacts using the Wisconsin Geologic and Natural History Survey regional hyrdrologic model as a base. This analysis modeled existing and proposed groundwater elevations, and suggested that the effect of the two on-site ponds would be to draw down groundwater elevations by roughly 1 to 2 feet in the Manhattan Drive neighborhood and increase groundwater elevations by about 1 foot in the Riverside Drive area.