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7.33 Open Water -- Tracy Lakes <br /> Goals: <br /> • To preserve, enhance and restore Tracy Lakes to benefit wildlife dependent upon open <br /> water environments such as various species of fish, fish-eating birds, and mammals and <br /> to create a water storage basin for irrigation of golf course fairways. <br /> Objectives: <br /> • To enhance and preserve approximately 110 to 196 acres of open water habitat. <br /> • To create approximately 110 to 196 acres of permanent lake habitat. <br /> • To construct a new water control structure at two locations within South Tracy <br /> conditions of the Lake. <br /> • To develop conditions suitable for a diversity of native fish species. <br /> • To develop a monitoring program, to be implemented by a competent biologist over a 5 <br /> year period, to insure that the above objectives are met. Specifically, the monitoring <br /> program will document that the water level management is providing proper inundation <br /> of the mitigation site; that the site has developed the targeted biotic communities, <br /> including fish; and that the site supports other wildlife species. <br /> Tracy Lakes, when full, occupy 350 acres. Historically, the basin developed into lakes on <br /> a seasonal basis only. Typically, the lakes filled by midwinter after rains completely <br /> saturated the soil profile. By midsummer, the lakes drew down completely. Because the <br /> lakes bottoms have been farmed since 1940, the seasonal period of inundation was <br /> shortened due to the pumping out of water, which lengthened the farming season. The <br /> restoration plan provides details for the restoration of Tracy Lakes. <br /> Buckeye Ranch Resource Plan (November, 1993) <br /> 194 <br />