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WThomas J. Bledsoe 5213 Brianna Court Cheyenne, WY. 82009 307-214-2322 tntbledsoe2@hotmail.com May 11, 2015 Mined Land Reclamation Board Room 215 1313 Sherman Street Denver, CO 80203 ti MAY 14 201 }; I DIVISION OF RECLAMATION <6'K IAININGAND SAFETY /'0— / 906 - o A4 -- Dear Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board: I am writing this letter in hopes that you will deny any further mining permits to Kym Schure and his Dollarschell Pit. This mining pit is located at the NW 1/4 if section 21, TBN, R53W of the 6th PM, Logan County, Colorado. The original pit is located north of my property in Sand Creek Estates subdivision which borders the original pit. On the plat map filed with Logan County my property is Lot 3 of the Sand Creek Estates. This subdivision has 12 lots per the plat map that was filed August 29, 2002 with Logan County. There are three lots (#6, 7, and 8) that are north of my property, which Mr. Schure owns, between the original gravel pit and my lot. I bought this property from Mr. Schure with final payment occurring in June of 2004. Several other individuals have also purchased lots in this subdivision with the understanding that there was no more activity at the mine and that there was a reasonable amount of land between the mine and our properties. I clearly would have not purchased this piece of property if it was known to me that Mr. Schure had further plans to use his original mining pit commercially or to expand the pit into our subdivision. The mining activity that close to residential dwellings should not be allowed at all. The existence of such an operation with children and small pets living nearby puts them all in jeopardy. All the lots fall under the same covenant protections that exist for the entire subdivision. The map of the proposed mine expansion clearly cuts into the empty lots north of my property and well into our subdivision. There already has been digging at this site in the past year without any knowledge of the members of the subdivision. The Sand Creek Estates Nome Owners Association covenants protecting the subdivision were written by Mr. Schure himself. As Mr. Schure writes in the covenants section 4 titled Land Use areas - General: Section h: Unnatural Drainage: Under no circumstances shall an owner of any lot of parcel of land be permitted to deliberately alter the topographic conditions of his lot or parcel of land in any way that