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AUG 0 2 2016 <br />DIVISION OF RECLAMATION <br />July 27, 2016 MINING AND SAFETY <br />Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety <br />1313 Sherman Street Room 215 <br />Denver, CO. 80203 YY) _ Q -a16 — 09 <br />To Whom It May Concern: <br />I wish to strongly py pqse_e proposed gravel pit known as the "Pueblo County Aggregate Project" at or <br />near Section 19, Township 21 South, Range 62 West, 6'h Prime Meridian in the town of Avondale in <br />Pueblo County, dated to commence July, 2016. <br />I grow melons, pumpkins, cabbage, onions, Pueblo Chile, parsnips, pinto beans and hemp in Avondale <br />and Vineland, from Avondale Blvd to 35`h Lane, all just north of the Bessemer Ditch. There are many <br />issues we have with this, but this letter will pertain only to the threat to the Bessemer Ditch itself and <br />that no one has ever re-established and maintained a stand of grass in these Badger Hills that 1 know of. <br />The proposed site sits approximately Y: mile from one of our farms. Our main source of water is the <br />Bessemer Ditch. I employ both flood and drip irrigation on my fields. Food safety rules require all of us <br />that grow vegetables to test our irrigation water quality several times monthly. When we get a big rain <br />over the proposed site, the excess dirt and fines WILL wash into the Bessemer, and even if there isn't <br />enough to plug the whole ditch, it will plug up my irrigation systems. <br />No matter the drainage plan proposed, it will negatively affect all of our farms. We count on the run-off <br />from the Badger Hills to increase our flows during and after rain events. <br />Please consider these fads and understand the harm this proposal will cause to my farms along with all <br />my neighbor's farms. This project is not viable in this area. <br />Russ Dionisio <br />Dionisio Produce <br />