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~F;E~MONT PING and REDI-~IX^ INC. <br />839 MacKenzie Avenue <br />P.O. Box 841 <br />Canon City, Colorado 81212 <br />Telephone: <br />(Bus.l 275-3264 <br />(Res.) 275.8200 <br />utes. We had washing problems, such ash water ran through the shop, <br />washed material from our hot oil tanks that have been covered for some <br />17 years and had not been washed since installation, washed out a haul <br />road that had never washed before. I am citing these instances merely <br />to show the storm was quite severe. <br />The washed slope will be repaired when the material gets dry enough to <br />handle . <br />3. I surely agree we crowded the stripping operation too close the <br />last crushing set. We had not stripped quite enough area to get the <br />quanitity of material needed for work under contract. When calculat- <br />ing the area to be stripped to produce the tonnage needed, I did not <br />fore see the depth of the active gravel face decreasing as much as it <br />has. <br />4. At the time this property was purchased, there were piles of junk, <br />dirt, and boulders everywhere. We moved material as much as three times, <br />hand sorted gravel to keep tramp iron from getting into our crushers, <br />just to get some semblance of an organized operation going, something <br />that would appear to have been done on purpose rather than by accident. <br />The stripping, cleaning, and sloping, I try to keep for busy work for <br />our employees, rather than lay them off when are not in [he process of <br />asphalt paving or delivering concrete. So consequently, the cleaning, <br />sloping, etc., does not proceed as as rapidly as 1 would like, but we <br />are attempting to proceed with a plan that should be well within the <br />reclamation specifications when completed. As soon as men and equip- <br />ment are free, we anticipate stripping the area where the top soil <br />stock piles are located. Therefore, we feel shaping and seeding them <br />now, and then to move them in the near future, would constitute a loss <br />in both time and money. <br />5. At the time this property was purchased, we had some exploratory <br />test drilling done to find the depth of overburden, depth of gravel <br />deposit, and to find the thickness of sandstone that designates the <br />bottom of the pit. The test holes indicate the sandstone to be dry <br />and 25' to 28' in thickness. There is blue shale under the sandstone. <br />On the southern side of the pit, the sandstone falls off rapidly in the <br />last 100' to 125'. The drilling indicated water down 1' to 1=' from <br />Page 2 <br />ASPHALT CONCRETE SAND & GRAVEL <br />Equal Opportunity Employer <br />