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M-E / VDaER~1NEERS, 1NC. • <br />0048 E, BEAVER t3 BtVO. SURE 30) <br />P.U. BOX 5140, AVON, CD. 81620 <br />PN: (910) 549-6000 fAX: (910)545-1559 <br />MEMORANDUM <br />Date: September 18, 2000 <br />To: Mr. Tom Gillis, Senior Environmental Protection Specialist <br />Received <br />SEF 2 ~ ZOCO <br />Durango Field Office <br />From: David L. Yoder Divlcbn of Minerals 8 Geology <br />RE: Mining Spill on the East Mancos River in late August or Early September <br />this year. <br /> <br />I appreciate your interest. Yes, ['m sure it will be difficult finding the source of <br />pollution and even more difficult finding the perpetrazors. But someone must stop this <br />from happening. For the second time in over thirty years that I have owned my ranch, <br />a massive spill has destroyed the ecology of the East Mancos River and 1 want those <br />responsible found and prosecuted. From a once beautiful mountain stream with trout <br />and beaver to what I saw this last weekend, I am almost at a loss for words. I will <br />cooperate. I will sign a complaint. You may enter my ranch to access the damage. <br />Hear are the observations I have made: <br />1. This May the water ran spring runoff clear. The river bed was scoured well and <br />there was no evidence of any odd siltation. The rocks appeared uncoated. <br />2. Labor Day weekend I noticed the river seemed to have a faint blue-gray cloudiness <br />but the riverbed rocks didn't have any casually observable sedimentation. <br />3. This last weekend (September 16/17) the riverbed wetted perimeter was almost <br />solidly covered with a gray claylike slime. It was also very obvious in the East <br />Mancos Highline Ditch (Robbins Ditch) <br />I have enclosed copies of the topos (yes, they came from a repon that was done on the <br />unsolved spill of 1986) that will help you focus on the places of my observations as <br />well as the overall picture of the travesty. <br />Please keep me informed as to your findings and progress. Right know I feel <br />powerless, frustrated, and angry that these people aren't being punished. I can be <br />reached at the numbers on the letterhead. <br />