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This past couple of years, we are being faced with a business, Loveland Ready Mix, <br /> whose objective is to remove the aggregate from an initial 126.58 acres just east of North <br /> Overland Trail and north of County Road 54G. Their business would also include a cement <br /> batch plant and a concrete crushing facility. From the research that has been completed by No <br /> LaPorte Gravel Corporation, the outcomes for our small community are less than desirable in air <br /> and water quality, in noise levels, in truck traffic, in deterioration of roads, in citizen's safety, in <br /> short and long-term health issues, in well drawdown and ground water flow changes...the list <br /> goes on. My husband and I are very concerned our property value would significantly decrease <br /> much less the quality of life we and others have enjoyed in the past. This proposal is <br /> unacceptable and incompatible with the LaPorte Area Plan. We will not be "the Dung Gate". <br /> We would welcome new businesses in LaPorte who would be contributors, not those <br /> who would rape the land and pad their pockets all in the name of progress, and then leave. <br /> Please take into account, LaPorte will not be the only one who would get the short straw. <br /> Prevailing winds in this area are north-northwest, which promises to impact the Fort Collins area <br /> in many of the same ways LaPorte would be. Also, the rivers flow from the Continental Divide to <br /> the east here on the eastern slope which could carry a negative effect downriver. <br /> May I direct your attention to your website statement of mission and vision... <br /> DRMS--Vision: The division is committed to balance the need for mineral resource <br /> production with protection of the public, environment and Colorado's natural resources. <br /> In the novel "Centennial", authored by James A. Michener, which was later transformed <br /> into a 12-part TV mini-series in 1978-79, the history of Colorado was so poignantly illustrated. <br /> We have the opportunity to look back at history...the choices that were made, the consequences <br /> of those choices, and then to have much wisdom looking forward with visionary eyes into our <br /> future. Let's make choices that posterity, the next stewards of natural resources, will say... we <br /> left them a beautiful heritage! <br /> Yours truly, <br /> Karen L. Lesser <br /> LaPorte Citizen <br />