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z <br /> HISTORY OF RECENT FRUSTRATIONS WITH THE KIRTRIGHT PIT <br /> For a few years now, I have been very frustrated with Coulsons' responses when I have tried to <br /> express my concerns and requests regarding flooding and the state of reclamation on my <br /> property. I was never taken seriously by Coulsons, so I hired an expert land engineer and an <br /> attorney, both at my own expense, to try to explain my concerns better. An investigation <br /> report by Brock Bowles from DRMS in spring of 2022 pressed upon Coulsons to get right-of- <br /> entry forms from the land owners and submit new leases for each parcel within the permit <br /> boundary by June 20, 2022. Yet until very recently, Coulsons have shown extremely little <br /> willingness to talk with me. <br /> In February, 2023, Dick Coulson left me a phone message stating, "We have nothing to talk <br /> about." It was only when I agreed to meet with Coulsons... without my representatives... that <br /> they hosted a meeting to update me. We had a second meeting in September, 2023, when my <br /> land engineer, Dan Giroux, and I met Dick without my attorney (at Dick's insistence). But Dick <br /> was quite uninformed about the Kirtright Pit. He falsely told us that the Kirtright Pit <br /> encompassed all of the Kirtright/O'Brien acreage. Dick didn't even know Patrick Lennberg's <br /> name. He also claimed to be unaware of issues with Larimer County Engineering. Nothing <br /> ever came of those meetings with Coulsons and much of what was shared turned out to be <br /> unworkable. <br /> In April, 2023, Kirtright dug a ditch 8-10 feet deep that ran from a pond north of the Kirtright <br /> house to the boundary of the O'Brien property. I called Ken Coulson that April morning when <br /> this ditch was being dug, and Ken said he knew nothing about Randy's digging, but he <br /> dismissed my fears of flooding, saying our property would not flood. Ken said he would fix the <br /> problem, but he never did. The ditch is still there today. Later, in May of 2023, Dick Coulson <br /> and an employee that he introduced as Lonnie stopped to talk to me. During this <br /> conversation, Lonnie mentioned that he had been working with large equipment on this ditch <br /> in an effort to drain water from the pond north of the Kirtright house onto my property! I do <br /> not think there is any justifiable reason for Coulsons to be doing this. In addition, Kenny was <br /> wrong about the flooding. About a month later, in June of 2023, the river flooded, and I still <br /> have a lot of water on my property to this day that has never fully receded after that flood. <br /> One area very close to my house, remains very marshy with large patches that are mudflats. It <br /> is effectively a big, unpleasant mosquito breeding area. <br /> In addition, Coulsons seem to be cooperating with Randy Kirtright's plans to build an <br /> unauthorized new home on Randy's east property within the Pit. In two 2022 DRMS <br /> investigation reports, Coulsons were notified that their piling of over 25 dump truck loads of <br />