2016-04-18_PERMIT FILE - M2016010 (8)

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\1� V Mr.Wally Erikson Colorado State Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety RECEIV7 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 Denver, CO 80203 APR 18 2016 Subject: Letter of Objection to the Approval of Permit Application#M2016010 DIVISION OF P,,E MINING AK, Dear Sirs, We are aware of the public notice posted by the Transit Mix Concrete Company;that they have applied for a mining permit to open an open pit quarry and aggregate production facility described in permit application#M2016010. My wife and I are residents of the Red Rock Valley Estates(RRVE) in Colorado Springs,CO. Our home is located approximately one mile NE of the proposed open pit quarry. We wish to formally object to the approval of this quarry on multiple ground,fist that we will be directly and adversely affected and aggrieved by the proposed conduct of this mining operation on the basis of the significant risk it poses to the quality and availability of our existing water supply,specifically the Deadman's Creek drainage and watershed.This impact is both to the fracturing system that feeds our subsurface supply upstream and the surface water as well. We wish to present geologic and hydrologic data citing both reference material within the Transit Mix application and data overlooked or ignored from the Red Rock Valley Estates Water Districts s Source Water Protection Plan,and other sources at your Public Hearings. Our water supply comes from duty wells shared by all of us in the water district. We also want to point out that, contrary to Transit Mix Application Exhibit P (Municipalities Within Two Miles)the Southern Colorado Springs RRVE Water District is a Quasi-Municipal Corporation and political Subdivision of the State of Colorado. It operates under the authority of the Special District Act, C.R.S. 32-1-1-101,et.seq. My point is,Transit Mix has, unfortunately,overlooked this entire community at best, rendering it"invisible" at best to your body in the consideration of the impacts of this application. We also object and are aggrieved by the predictable loss of property value that will be inevitable should this permit be approved. I will, again, present evidence and documentation in your public hearing to illustrate from the realtor industry that similar open pit quarry operations have caused a palpable loss of property value and suppressed the normal buying and selling of properties within the shadow of this type of operation.We did not move here 10 years ago with the reasonable expectation that our equity and investment in land and property would stripped away,along with the several hundred other neighbors surrounding this proposed activity,without fighting an expensive and lingering legal battle. While we have reasonable concerns about road safety, noise and dust as well,the principal basis of our objection is focused on those two issues. Thank you for your consideration. Respectfully,