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RECEIVED <br /> Douglas Grant MAR 16 2020 <br /> PO box 1027 <br /> 110 w Homestead Dr. DIVISION 0F{ iAMp <br /> MINING AND IMAM <br /> Basalt co. 81621 <br /> 970-927-3201 H <br /> 970-274-0543 c <br /> douggrant@sopris.net <br /> March 12, 2020 <br /> Mined land Reclamation Board/Div. Reclamation Mining and Safety <br /> 1313 Sherman ST. Room 215 <br /> Denver Colorado 80203 <br /> Dear Mined land Reclamation Board/Div. Reclamation Mining and Safety: <br /> I am an owner of land adjacent to the proposed Rifle Gravel Pit#1, Grant Bros. Ranch LLC. Grant <br /> Bros. Const. LLC. Operates an active gravel pit on the property. <br /> Scott Contracting has summited an application for a 112 permit in the name of Rifle Gravel Pit #1 to <br /> the Div. of Reclamation Mining and Safety- Mined Land Reclamation Board. (M2020-008) ACY/THM <br /> I am writing to express my concerns about several issues directly affecting my property and mining <br /> operation as well as some ambiguities in the application. <br /> First and foremost the application states that the dewatering well will discharge into an onsite <br /> existing tailwater ditch that reaches the Colorado River. The water pumped to this tailwater ditch <br /> goes across our property in two places and parallels the north boundary of our property to <br /> eventually get to the Colorado River. This ditch has a flow that rises and falls with the seasons very <br /> little in winter months and an increase in the irrigation season that is irregular tailwater flow. The <br /> applicant has no permission to use the ditch that crosses our property for dewatering purposes. <br /> Pumping water to dewater a gravel pit is year round and could possibly be perpetual if an <br /> evaporative loss replacement contract cannot be obtained at the end of mining. The pumping of <br /> ground water to the ditch that was dug years ago to remove surface water from running across our <br /> property originating east of us is not an appropriate use nor do I believe a legal use and it is not <br /> acceptable in any way. Pumping more water to the ditch increases the flow raises the water level in <br /> the ditch and will increase the amount of infiltration into the gravel pit resulting in more cost to <br /> dewater our pit and may affect our reclamation of the pit walls resulting in injury to our property <br /> and gravel pit operation. Nowhere in the application is there an estimate or projection of the <br />