2018-09-19_REVISION - M1999058 ‎(6)‎

• Permit No: M1999058
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 9/19/2018
• Doc Name: Request for Technical Revision
• From: Colorad Stone Quarries
• To: DRMS
• Type & Sequence: TR5
• Email Name: DMC
• Email Name: WHE
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Greg Lewicki And Associates, PLLC
3375 W.Powers Circle Phone: [phone] Fax[phone]
Littleton,CO 80123 E-mail: infoCajewicki.biz
September 16, 2018
Dustin Czapla
1313 Sherman Street, Room 215
Denver, CO 80203
303-866-3567
Delivered Via Email and Hard Copy
RE: Pride of America Mine, Colorado Stone Quarries, M-1999-058, Technical Revision - 5
to Modify Access to the Pride of America Mine
Mr. Czapla:
Colorado Stone Quarries (CSQ) seeks to satisfy Gunnison County's request to restore
public access to view active quarrying operations. During the quarry's closure periods
from the 1920s to the 1980s and the 1990s until the early 2000s, the public accessed the
quarry both along the historic rail grade along Yule creek and the road that was built
during the restart of the quarry in the 1980s. Gunnison County established a trail right-of-
way (ROW) along the rail grade and then through mine property to the historic portals of
the Washington Gallery. Those ROWS remain administratively closed due to safety
concerns. Portions of the rail grade ROW were vacated through a lawsuit filed by the
McIntyre's who previously owned the land where the Franklin Quarry is permitted. CSQ
has worked with Gunnison County to develop a plan to restore public viewing of the
workings.
The plan anticipates the following actions:
1. Diversion of Yule Creek into the previously cutoff creek channel east of the ridge,
2. Widening of the rail grade through temporary filling of the existing creek channel
to create a temporary mining access road,
3. Closure of the current haul road to mine traffic above the mine gate,
4. Opening of the current haul road to public parking and pedestrian traffic above the
mine gate,
5. Mining of the Franklin ridge to create enough working and traveling space along
the Franklin ridge,
6. Removal of the temporary fill within Yule Creek,
7. Installation of a vehicle crossing at approximately the current foot bridge location
to create the permanent access road as shown on Maps C-1 and C-3,
8. Closure of the Yule Creek eastern diversion and return of the creek to its original