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Bringing People to the Water: Clear Creek Canyon Parks Big Easy Recreation Area Introduction Presentation Team: Scot Grossman Projects Team Supervisor Jefferson County Open Space Jefferson County, Colorado Moneka Worah Principal

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Bringing People to the Water:

Clear Creek Canyon Park’s Big Easy Recreation Area

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Introduction

Presentation Team:

  • Scot Grossman

Projects Team Supervisor Jefferson County Open Space Jefferson County, Colorado

  • Moneka Worah

Principal and Biologist ERO Resources Lakewood, Colorado

  • Paul Thomas

Principal and Landscape Architect Stream Landscape Architecture and Planning Denver, Colorado

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Introduction

Project Team:

  • Jefferson County Open Space
  • CEI Construction
  • Muller Engineering
  • Yeh and Associates
  • ERO Resources
  • Stream Landscape Architecture
  • 105 West Survey
  • Zozo Public Relations
  • Summit Engineering
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Introduction

Presentation Agenda

1. The Big Picture: The Big Easy and the P2P Trail Project 2. Moving a Highway 3. Prebles! Working Through a T&E Species Finding 4. Designing to Bring People to the Water

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Balancing Recreation with the Environment

Environmental Constraints and Opportunities

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Environmental Permitting

  • Clean Water Act Section 404 Permit
  • Colorado Department of Transportation

Access Permit

  • Biological Assessment/Biological Opinion

Environmental Constraints and Opportunities

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What is a Preble’s Jumping Mouse?

Environmental Constraints and Opportunities

  • Found in 1899 in Colorado by Edward Preble
  • Endemic to riparian habitats of CO and WY
  • Found nowhere else in the world
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Preble’s Preferred Habitats

Environmental Constraints and Opportunities

  • Riparian areas with upland

grasslands adjacent

  • Dense, herbaceous or woody

vegetation near ground level

  • Foraging and hibernation areas
  • Open water during the active

season

  • Refugia from flooding
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Environmental Constraints and Opportunities

Permitting Process

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Estimating Impacts

  • Conservative approach to impacts
  • Assume worst case
  • Make wide limits of disturbance

Environmental Constraints and Opportunities

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Proposed Mitigation

  • Proposed combination of on-site and off-

site habitat

  • On-site limited to canyon setting
  • Coal Creek and Ralston Creek

reviewed for off-site mitigation

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Big Easy Habitat

Environmental Constraints and Opportunities

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Habitat Protection

Environmental Constraints and Opportunities

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Habitat Enhancement

Environmental Constraints and Opportunities

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Habitat Creation

Environmental Constraints and Opportunities

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Protect, Enhance, Create

Environmental Constraints and Opportunities

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Project Objectives

Bringing People to the Water

  • Trailhead and parking lot for P2P Trail
  • A destination recreation area
  • Enhanced natural resource
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Key Challenges

Bringing People to the Water

  • Limited space (1.5 acre)
  • Busy adjacent highway
  • Wild river
  • Seriously degraded site
  • Mitigation for Preble’s Mouse
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  • Enhance the resource—mitigate previous impacts

Design Objectives

Bringing People to the Water

Placer Mining

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  • Enhance the resource—mitigate previous impacts

Design Approaches

Bringing People to the Water

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  • Enhance the resource—mitigate previous impacts

Design Approaches

Bringing People to the Water

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Bringing People to the Water

  • Enhance the resource—minimize new impacts

Design Approaches

Water Access Points Social Trails

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Bringing People to the Water

  • Enhance the resource by protecting valuable habitat

Design Approaches

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Design Approaches

Bringing People to the Water

  • Siting the P2P Trail
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Design Approaches

Bringing People to the Water

  • Siting the P2P Trail
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Design Approaches

Bringing People to the Water

  • Siting the P2P Trail
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Design Approaches

Bringing People to the Water

  • Siting the P2P Trail
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Design Approaches

Bringing People to the Water

  • Siting the P2P Trail
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Design Approaches

Bringing People to the Water

  • Siting the P2P Trail
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Design Approaches

Bringing People to the Water

  • Siting the P2P Trail
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Design Approaches

Bringing People to the Water

  • Siting the P2P Trail
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Design Approaches

Bringing People to the Water

  • Siting the P2P Trail
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Design Approaches

Bringing People to the Water

  • Creating a destination recreation area
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Design Approaches

Bringing People to the Water

  • Trails, boardwalks and overlooks
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Design Approaches

Bringing People to the Water

  • Trails, boardwalks and overlooks
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Design Approaches

Bringing People to the Water

  • Trails, boardwalks and overlooks
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Design Approaches

Bringing People to the Water

  • Water access
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Design Approaches

Bringing People to the Water

  • Water access
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Design Approaches

Bringing People to the Water

  • Water access
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Design Approaches

Bringing People to the Water

  • Water access
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Bringing People to the Water

  • Water access

Design Approaches

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Design Approaches

Bringing People to the Water

  • Water access
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Design Approaches

Bringing People to the Water

  • Water access
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Design Approaches

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  • Mitigate highway
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Design Approaches

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  • Mitigate highway
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Bringing People to the Water

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Design Approaches

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  • Amenities--Shelters
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Design Approaches

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  • Amenities--Shelters
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Bringing People to the Water

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Design Approaches

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  • ADA Accessibility
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Design Approaches

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  • Amenities—Geology Garden
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Design Approaches

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  • Amenities—Geology Garden
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Design Approaches

Bringing People to the Water

  • Amenities—Geology Garden
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Multi-Purpose Recreation Area

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Multi-Purpose Recreation Area

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Multi-Purpose Recreation Area

Bringing People to the Water

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Multi-Purpose Recreation Area

Bringing People to the Water

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Multi-Purpose Recreation Area

Bringing People to the Water

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Multi-Purpose Recreation Area

Bringing People to the Water

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Bringing People to the Water

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Thank you.

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