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1 <br />- N�,4 <br />h <br />June 15, 2015 RECEIVE® <br />!( Tom Eisenman, County Administration Officer JUN 19 2015 <br />Park County Board of County CommissionersMOtA►,IIAt10N <br />Via Hand Delivery DMWoo AND gq o <br />Re: JRS Mining Hard Rock Application Permit - Sullivan Aggregate Pit <br />Dear Mr. Eisenman: <br />We are writing this letter as concerned homeowners in the Beaver Ridge development in Park <br />County. We have met with other homeowners and will be formally protesting the granting of the <br />above application. It has come to our attention that the above entity has applied for a mining <br />permit adjacent to the existing Sandborn Sand & Gravel Pit mining operation about which we <br />wrote to you one year ago (please see letter attached). Also note that in the Public Notice that <br />was published in the Fairplay Flume on May 22, 2015 and June 12, 2015, it was written: <br />"Please note that under the provisions of C.R.S. 34-32.5-101, et seq., comments related to <br />noise, truck traffic, hours of operation, visual impacts, effects on property values and other <br />social or economic concerns are issues not subject to this Office's [Division of Reclamation, <br />Mining and Safety] jurisdiction. These subjects.... are typically addressed by your local <br />governments.... » Nice of them to publish all of these derogatory effects to us homeowners. <br />We are reiterating the positions raised in the previous letter written one year ago double -fold, as <br />it now appears that all the concerns about which we wrote to you (and the ones so boldly pointed <br />out for us above) would be doubled if the new mining operation was granted this permit and <br />allowed to operate. Double noise, air and water pollution, disturbance of wildlife and the ever- <br />increasing rodent infestation of our properties since the existing mining operation went full <br />tremor on the land so close to our residences. Not to mention the amplified loss of property <br />values. When we had our property for sale last summer, we could not sell our home because all <br />showing realtors told us the prospective buyers standing inside our home and on our decks <br />would not buy our house because of the `terrible noise coming from the mining operation across <br />the road.' There are now more properties for sale in Beaver Ridge than there have been in years, <br />some with asking prices thousands of dollars below what the owners paid five years ago. This is <br />not a good sign for our community or Park County, in general. <br />As you know, the existing gravel pit met with numerous violations after my letter of last year <br />prompted an inspection (and it had not been inspected in some time). We shutter to think what <br />would happen if another irresponsible mining operation moves in on top of it. How much time <br />and money will the state and county have to invest in having these mining operations adhere to <br />operating within proper environmental and safety guidelines? In addition, we know you helped <br />in trying to have the Sandborn Sand & Gravel Pit adjust its hours last summer so that we could <br />have some sort of co -existing peace with the gravel pit and in living here. We sincerely hope <br />you will keep that operation to its previous word and help prevent any further mining operation <br />from double -blasting us out of any hope of living some sort of quality existence in Park County. <br />/A o j 4orcrr <br />