2016-04-14_PERMIT FILE - M2016010 (2)

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RE ,/APR 14 2016 Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 QjVI$ION OF RECLAW Denver, Colorado 80203 MININGANDSVW 07 April 2016 �� ' a Cal To Whom It May Concern, We are writing in regardp to the application for quarry permits sought by, Transit Mix and their sister company, Castle Concrete. Application for the quarry permits location would be in the Turkey Creek area, up off of Little Turkey Creek Road, along Highway 115. We currently own property on the 115 corridor and are concerne bout the destruction of habitat and the devaluation of our properties that come from mining; the noise and tearing up of roads, the heavy equipment and truck traffic; there are the issues of water usage and the increase of fine dust with other pollutants. This may not had been a concern at one time, but Castle Concrete has an extreme history of not following through with their promises of reclamation, and when if any partial measures were taken, what methods were used to do so. Here are a few examples of company ethics; • The 31st Bock Pit was turned into a park; buried under the park is the remains of demolition material, (located next to the landfill). • Castle Sand Plant on Highway 85/87 is now a junk yard and rightly so, buried under the yard are contaminates and old equipment. One can only wonder what the cost may have been to the El Paso tax payers for clean-up had this cite been pawned off on the city. • Continental was pawned off and left to the city of Colorado Springs to reckon with. It was turned into a recycle plant and is located across the highway from the Castle Sand Plant junkyard. • Black Canyon Quarry, neighboring the Cedar Heights area, has had no mining for many years; of course a truck may occasionally be seen entering and exiting the quarry, but rarely. It would seem that as long as the permit is kept up to date, that eyes will continue to look the other way than deal with issues • Daniel Sand, off of Academy and Bradley Road buried top soil that was to be used for reclamations, with mud from the clarifier and recycled concrete waste.