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9/9/2015 <br />State.co.us Executive Branch Mail - Fwd: Tunnel and MW23 road <br />STATE, OF Hernandez - DNR Alysha <alysha.hernandez@state.co.us> <br />� �OL,O R�'AI O ' <br />Alysha - <br />Please file this in Laserfiche as General Documents/Public Correspondence. Name it "Email from Dr. Corley." <br />Jim, we should discuss this soon. <br />Thanks, <br />Rob <br />P 303.866.3567, extension 3113 1 F 303.332.3106 <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215, Denver, CO 30203 <br />rob.zuber@state.co.us I http:Urnining.state.co.us <br />---------- Forwarded message ---------- <br />From: W D Corley, Jr. <ajjc@att.net> <br />Date: Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 1:41 PM <br />Subject: Tunnel and MW23 road <br />To: Allen Weaver <alweaverefci@gmail.com> <br />Cc: John Adams <jra@springsips.com>, Rob Zuber - DNR <rob.zuber@state.co.us> <br />Al, <br />We received your letter today refusing to reclaim the truck tunnel and the MW23 road. <br />Yes, we originally requested that the truck tunnel be retained, but that was before you started demolition of the <br />tunnel. That demolition was stopped and the damage was partially repaired with a steel patch of the prestressed <br />team beam roof on the north end. We never asked for the raw coal recovery tunnel to be retained. In the <br />interval years the concrete roof and the concrete retaining walls have continued to deteriorate, leaving a <br />particularly hazardous east retaining wall on the south end. Then an event happened this summer that could not <br />have been anticipated by us. The hydraulic operating system for the coal gates was left in place and its <br />failure caused the oil spill in June. The hydraulic cylinder has been removed, but the hydraulic oil lines are still <br />in place. The soil berm or dam that was placed at the north end has been pushed into a pile and it no longer <br />retains storm water from leaving the tunnel. There was an oil sheen on the storm water puddles in the tunnel on <br />August 30, 2015. Either oil is continuing to leak or the oil contaminated soil berm is the source of the new <br />oil. Your letter is dated September 1, 2015, which is prior to September 5, 2015, when you said that you were <br />going to inspect the tunnel; have you seen what I reported to you on August 31, 2015?. The raw coal recovery <br />tunnel terminates in a dead end in what appears to be a dangerous condition for wildlife in case they would use <br />this tunnel for a den. Our original retention request certainly was not meant to retain the tunnel in the condition it <br />is in now. <br />https://mail.googl e.com/m ai I/u/0/?ui=2&i k=e29129fcb5&view=pt&search= i nbox&th=14fadl8O98c6aa4f&si m l=14fadl8O98c6aa4f 1/2 <br />