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South Hinsdale Response to Objections <br /> 12 July 2022 <br /> 1. RESPONSE TO DRMS COMMENTS <br /> Dear Mr. West, <br /> As requested, here are our responses to the 12 items in the DRMS review of 27 May 2022. 1 have <br /> attached various documents as requested. This letter also contains comments and responses to <br /> the 16 public comments and the 2 agency comments received on 2 Jun 2022. We also are <br /> requesting alternatives for access and sequencing based on recommendations of the USFS at <br /> our site-meeting, by several addendums to Exhibits C (page 20A ff)and D (page 24A ff). We have <br /> not contacted or responded to any commenter directly except for the contact with CPW which you <br /> facilitated. <br /> 1.1 Page 2 of Application Form. <br /> A new copy is provided as Appendix A to this letter. As per past practice, a street address <br /> was NOT provided for WASTELINE, Inc.: only a PO Box (3471) in the second blank on <br /> that line: we were unaware that policy had changed as this practice has been accepted in <br /> the past. We are unsure why some copies did not have a street address for Dancing Winds <br /> Ranch. Please use 101 Kleckner Lane (Dancing Winds Ranch), Pagosa Springs, CO <br /> 81147 for South Hinsdale Sand & Gravel, and PO Box 3471 Rapid City, SD 57709-3471 <br /> for WASTELINE. WASTELINE Inc. physical address (home office) is 4725 Croyle Court, <br /> Rapid City, SD 57702-8900. We have added these items and phones. <br /> 1.2 Irrigation System. <br /> None of the irrigation system, including Nickles Brothers Ditch, Kleckner Ditch, or Grimes <br /> Ditch, gates, ditches, weirs, return flow channels or other accoutrements, are owned, <br /> maintained, or operated by any irrigation company, water users association, water <br /> conservation district or any other entity that we are aware of. The Texers, as owners of <br /> Dancing Winds Ranch (and South Hinsdale Sand & Gravel, LLC), are responsible for <br /> maintenance and operation of these return flow channels, and do not consider them <br /> significant nor permanent. (Note that these are return flows and are not intended to have <br /> further agricultural use but are simply conveyed (returned) to the river for uses <br /> downstream. Also note that many wetlands (see item 5) downstream, except those <br /> immediately on the river, are sustained only by these return flows or groundwater available <br /> due to irrigation. They are not natural wetlands. If irrigation were to cease due to loss or <br /> sale of water rights, there would very likely be insufficient water available to sustain these <br /> wetlands.) One objective is to continue to sustain those wetland areas on USFS land. <br /> 1.3 Scale. <br /> If a truck scale is used, it will be a portable scale, with wheels, placed there temporarily. If <br /> there is a scale control room, it will again almost certainly be a trailer or a module that <br /> attaches to the scale. Any footings or foundation would also be portable and temporary <br /> and generally placed/moved with the scale. If a truck scale is used, it would be installed <br /> above grade, with no construction (earthmoving other than leveling and compacting the <br /> site, pouring of foundations, drilling, etc.) involved. It is intended to use bucket scales as <br /> much as possible, consistent with Colorado Statutes on weighing in commerce, and to sell <br /> materials by the cubic yard as much as possible. <br /> 5182-22-003 WASTELINE, INC. Page 4 of 107 <br />