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TOR C. DEVEREAUX, P.C• Victor C. Devereaux Attorney At Law P.O. Box 40 400 Vega Street San Luis, Colorado 81152 August 23, 1995 Division of Minerals and Geology Department of Natural Resources 1313 Sherman St., Room 215 Denver, CO 80203 Re: File No. M-80-233 Dear Board: III IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII sss Telephone: (719) 672-4000 Fax: (719) 672-0633 oiy~~e a/S~ 9S ~vo'0~` This memo is in response to Costilla County, Permit No. M-80- 233. The County Commissioners and the Administrator for the County Commissioners are trying desperately to come into complete compliance with the gravel pits. This particular gravel pit has been used as a land fill for at least twenty years. The mining only resumed very recently as a result of the Cease and Desist Order at the neighboring Sierra Grande site. This land fill is scheduled to cease operations in October of this year. The State Department of Health may grant an extension for an additional year as a result of complying with hardship criteria in locating another facility to take the county's refuse. The County Commissioners and the County Administrator realize and understand that the public is best served if there is no adverse impact to ground water use. They are willing to do whatever is reasonable and necessary in protecting the public against contamination of ground water that is put to any use agriculturally, domestically, etc. The county is strapped financially but is willing to do what is reasonable and necessary to find ways to monitor the ground water. It appears that the water that collects in this pit is not ground water at all but simply run off from the irrigation processes and rain. The neighboring site M-94-103 is clearly impacted by the irrigation process and the local ditch rider has acknowledged as much. That same ditch runs near the land fill area. It is the belief of the commissioners that seepage from irrigation process has resulted in the standing water which is only observed during the irrigation season.