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Big Hermit Gulch & Pine Creek Railroad Fill AML Projects

Pine Creek.
Pine Creek.
Reclamation.
Reclamation.
Reclamation.
Reclamation.
Reclamation.
Reclamation.
Reclamation.
Reclamation.
Big Hermit Gulch.
Big Hermit Gulch.
Big Hermit Gulch.
Big Hermit Gulch.
Reclamation.
Reclamation.
Reclamation.
Reclamation.
Reclamation.
Reclamation.
Reclamation.
Reclamation.

Location: Fremont County

Site Features: railroad grade fills damming the creeks

Safety Hazards: potential flooding of public roads

Environmental Hazards: potential flood hazard to watershed & riparian health, stream channel morphology & private lands downstream

Reclamation: removed fill, backfiled cuts, recontoured the area & revegetated the riparian zone

Date of Reclamation: 2004

Cost: $340,000 (Wyoming $275,000; BLM $65,000)

   
Last updated: 12-03-2010