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r` - ~` III IIIIIIIIIIIII III 999 n E c 2 ~ i9s~ December 21, 1981 Mrs. Carol Russell Mined Land Reclamation 423 Centennial Building 1313 Sherman Street Denver, Colorado 80203. Dear Mrs. Russell, ~ ~.. ~ (.mot-_. ,.. t' ., ... The following comments represent our response to the Mined Land Reclamation inspection report for 9 December 1981. The diversion ditch above the hillside containing the portals (D-7) is on the inside edge of a ranch access road. This road is entirely outside of our surface-facilities dis- turbed area. Along several portions of this road (most notably those sections where the ditch depth is shallow) the road has been excavated from solid sandstone outcroppings. Due to the extreme slope of the hillside; the ranch road's close horizontal proximity to the portal highwall cut; and the aforementioned predominance of massive sandstone crops, any widening of this road would amount to a monumental under- taking (if not an impossible task). The net result of these conditions (which, with the exception of ditch D-7 per se, existed as-is prior to current regulatory prohibition) is that any widening of ditch D-7 would result in the direct reduction of usable roadbed width. Inasmuch as the use of, and the ownership and right-of-way easements on this road are vested entirely removed from Sunland Mining Corporation, our Corporation would be in very poor legal posture were it to disrupt the usability of the road. The input of the ranch road to the hydrologic protection associated with our mining operation is solely to divert undisturbed runoff directly to the natural drainage without benefit(?) of sediment pond detention. It seems highly likely that the road would provide this function (as it had for 80 years or so, prior to our construction of ditch D-7) with or SUNLAND /MINING CORPORATION P.O. Box 55 Oak Creek, Colorado 80467 303-736-8181