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4 <br /> Yet Coulsons most recent submittals to DRMS are entirely dependent upon their <br /> apparent plans to operate the Stroh pit for the next seven years as indicated in the map <br /> they submitted. <br /> Coulsons Want Seven Years to Finish Kirtright Pit <br /> This is unacceptable. We disagree that it should take seven years for Coulsons to <br /> protect O'Brien property with the new plan. That would be seven springs and seven <br /> autumns when the Big Thompson could flood, and we can get torrential rains. When <br /> they want to, Coulsons can move quickly. Coulsons filled one pond on Kirtright property <br /> within two months in the spring of 2023. They can use plenty of dirt and gravel one mile <br /> away to the west. The original contract with Virgil Kirtright was signed in 1986. Thus it <br /> has been nearly 40 years and Coulsons have still not finished reclamation on O'Brien <br /> property, even though annual reports show that mining ended in 2008. The DRMS <br /> regulations require completing the pit within five years of the end of mining, but it has <br /> now been seventeen years since the end of mining. <br /> Coulsons Want to Expand the Pit Boundaries to 111 acres from the Original 80 Acres <br /> This is only to accommodate the use of the Stroh Pit for finishing the Kirtright <br /> reclamation. <br /> Sixteen Acres in the SW Corner Are Not Pre-1981 Status <br /> The statements about the current state of the 16 acres in the SW part of the Kirtright Pit <br /> being similar to pre-1981 levels just isn't true. These ponds were excavated, leveled and <br /> completely filled in in the spring of 2023, by Coulson employees for the purpose of filling <br /> in the pond north of the Kirtright house. Division of Water Resources have in the past <br /> said owners forfeit their pre-1981 benefits if the ponds are disrupted. And these ponds <br /> can spawn dangerous mosquito breeding. <br /> Coulsons Need to Finish the O'Brien Property Reclamation First Before the Kirtright <br /> Property <br /> We recommend that the work be finished on O'Brien property before they work on <br /> Kirtright-owned land, and a partial release can be made to the Coulsons for that work. <br />