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ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING <br />The city of Louisville lies at an average elevation of 5,335 feet. This is within the Colorado <br />Piedmont portion of the Great Plains physiographic province, just east of the hogbacks/foothills <br />transition zone between the piedmont and the Southern Rocky Mountains physiographic <br />province (Colorado Geological Survey 2011). Louisville is generally underlain by sandy loams <br />and sandy clay loams, which are derived from ancient wind -reworked alluvial (waterborne) and <br />eolian (windborne) sediments (Natural Resources Conservation Service 2017). Natural <br />vegetative communities for the Piedmont are mixed -grass to tall grass prairie and include big and <br />little bluestem, mountain muhly, green needlegrass, western wheatgrass, sand dropseed, blue <br />grama grass, and needle -and -thread grass (Colorado State University Colorado Natural Heritage <br />Program 2005). <br />4 <br />