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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAPPENDIX L_WaterCourseDesignation_ConservationDistrict20191209From:Christine A. Pearcy To:Matt E. Ekstrom Subject:FW: Water Course Designation Date:Monday, December 9, 2019 2:15:51 PM Attachments:5400 Folwer Rd - 310 jurisdiction mark-up.docx Hi Matt, Looks like they are calling both waterways, Middle Creek Ditch or Middle Creek DitchLateral. See Mike Rotar’s email below Becky’s response. Let me know if you need anything else from these folks. Kindly, Christine Christine A. Pearcy Environmental Scientist, Morrison-Maierle 406.922.6846 direct | 406.581.6543 mobile From: Becky Clements [mailto:becky@gallatincd.org] Sent: Monday, December 9, 2019 2:10 PM To: Christine A. Pearcy <cpearcy@m-m.net> Subject: Fwd: Water Course Designation ***This message originated from an External Source.*** Please use proper judgment and caution when opening attachments, clicking links, or responding to this email. Hi Christine. I just heard back from Mike this morning on this. Please see his response below. Let me know if I can be of further assistance. See you at the meeting next week. Becky Clements District AdministratorGallatin Conservation District 406-282-4350Email: becky@gallatincd.org ---------- Forwarded message ---------From: Michael (Mike) Rotar <Mike.Rotar@respec.com> Date: Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 8:37 AMSubject: RE: Water Course Designation To: Becky Clements <becky@gallatincd.org> Hi Becky, Just getting back to you now on Christine’s question regarding waterway jurisdiction at 5400Fowler Road. I’ve attached a marked-up excerpt from the 1953 Water Resources Survey (WRS) for Gallatin County. As Christine described in her email, the waterway on this property is a lateral fromthe Middle Creek Ditch. I reviewed aerial photos back to 1995, and although the waterway looks to have been manipulated on the property to some degree in the last 25 years, itcontinues to have originated from the main Middle Creek Ditch on the SE side of the Fowler Rd./Patterson Rd. intersection. As such, this waterway is a ditch and considered non-jurisdictional from the CD’s standpoint. I would also like to add that just a bit further north from this property, the CD has taken jurisdiction over a couple smaller waterways as they approach and cross Stucky Road. At leastone of these shows as a blue line or stream on the WRS map (and USGS quad. map), others showed as ditches on the WRS map, but today they collect enough irrigation returnflow/groundwater that we have elected to take jurisdiction on them from the general Stucky Rd. area and continuing to the north. However, this property (5400 Fowler) ends up being justsouth of that area and I would still consider the waterway(s) as non-jurisdictional ditches, albeit just to the south of the “transitional” area where some ditches become “stream-ditches”. MICHAEL ROTAR, PE, CFM 406.284.2527 office // 406.570.1035 cell From: Becky Clements <becky@gallatincd.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 2:27 PMTo: Michael (Mike) Rotar <Mike.Rotar@respec.com>Subject: Fwd: Water Course Designation CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Exercise caution when viewing attachments, clicking links, or responding to requests. Hi Mike. Can you please advise me on this? Thank you! Becky Clements District Administrator Gallatin Conservation District406-282-4350 Email: becky@gallatincd.org ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Christine A. Pearcy <cpearcy@m-m.net> Date: Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 1:59 PM Subject: Water Course DesignationTo: Becky Clements <becky@gallatincd.org> Cc: Matt E. Ekstrom <mekstrom@m-m.net> Hi Becky,Good to see you this morning. I’ve got a question for you regarding water course designation. One of our development engineers was at a meeting with the City of Bozemanthis morning regarding development of a property located at 5400 Fowler Lane. The City requested that the Conservation District provide determination on whether the water courseson the subject property are ditches, streams or stream/ditch. I delineated the property this past fall and my research indicated that the watercourse that ran parallel to Fowler is Middle Creek Ditch. I’m unsure what the other waterway is, but itterminates into a small pond on the northern boundary of the property. I’ve attached a series of maps, for reference. Could you provide guidance on these determinations or let me know what the correct courseof action is to get an official designation from your office? Thank you! Christine Christine A. 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