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e , <br /> • Moving dirt and extracting rock from the ground alters the flow of water runoff. The abutting and <br /> adjoining neighborhoods depend strictly on well water supplies for all their water needs. There is <br /> potential for well contamination and/or damage, or complete loss of all well water from nearby <br /> blasting, contamination from blowing dust, and water runoff. Transit Mix can't guarantee it won't <br /> happen, and nothing has been put into place to fully compensate us if it does happen. Blasting can <br /> change the water flow. Additionally, the heavy equipment necessary for quarrying uses gasoline, <br /> diesel, oil and transmission fluids.These fluids can potentially leak. Small amounts to larger spills <br /> can contaminate 100's to 1000's of gallons of ground water. <br /> • While TMC lists 8 adjacent properties to the site: many more neighborhoods and families will be <br /> affected. Red Rock Valley Estates alone is home to about 82 families. <br /> Quarrying requires heavy equipment, blasting, drilling, earthmoving, all of which create noise and <br /> dust, and, would certainly diminish the quality of life and well being of the adjacent land owners and <br /> surrounding area. Southwestern/Highway 115 Corridor's unparalleled natural beauty will be <br /> compromised and the landscape densely populated with quarries and their side effects. The 115 <br /> Southwestern Highway area is currently taxed by the activities and traffic associated with Fort <br /> Carson, Cheyenne Mountain State Park, RV Parks, and privately owned parks opened to the public, <br /> within the surrounding area. Protection of the land, environment, and public health, safety, and <br /> wellbeing is consistent with my constitutional rights. In alliance with the "Highway 115 Citizen's <br /> Advisory Committee", the citizens, and the fellow neighborhoods along the corridor, I am opposed <br /> to the quarry development. <br /> And finally, I ask, how would you react to a quarry that was being proposed in YOUR <br /> neighborhood?Would you want your children or grandchildren to be exposed to the effects of <br /> breathing silica on a day-to-day basis???Would you want to listen to pounding and/or explosions <br /> on a daily basis and have dust covering everything you touch?Would you want your only water <br /> source to possibly dry up or your home value to drop?These are very real possibilities. Please <br /> support us by denying this request, and letting us continue to breathe the fresh Colorado <br /> mountain air we now enjoy.Thank you for your time and consideration of this letter. <br /> Sincerely, <br /> Gerry Klein <br /> 11580 Calle Corvo <br /> Colorado Springs, Colorado 80926 <br /> 719-375-4144 <br />