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~ From NATIVE SEEDERS -Sohn: awes PHONE No. : 2996 • Mdr.12 1999 5:4L3PM <br />i <br />' III IIIIIIIIIIIII III <br />sss <br />February 16, 1999 <br />Mined Laad Reclamation <br />Carl Mount <br />Gregg Squire <br />Christina ICamnikar <br />Denver, CO <br />This letter is in regards to the Thrcc Bell Gravel Ph reclarnntion altd post-mined land use. <br />Approximately 20 years ago the community surruuntling this gravel expansion agreed to <br />allow mining. 7'hc Larimer County Commissioners wcrc told that the post-mined land <br />use would remain agricultural and to benefit wildlife. The terms open space and <br />enhancement of recrentioml opportunities for the community wcrc promised. The <br />rrt;lamatlon that wac to promptly follow gravel extraction wos ignored. 71tc owtership of <br />the property bas ohnngcd, and the new owtwry trove no intern to follow the post-mined <br />land ore premise. They have designed elnborak: plans to build hurrws around the lake. <br />This is in conflict wiW premises made to Larimer C:ounly (;omm;~cloncrs when the <br />gravel mine was first proposed under petition for spc:ial review. <br />Much ofthc wildlife has ban driven off. The construction of homes will disrupt bald <br />eagle nesting tu:livity adjacent to the property. 11 will also doom the deer and small <br />mammal habitat. Migratory waterfowl and small game populations will be discouraged <br />from returning es before the mining permit was issued. One ofthc last undeveloped <br />riparian ltabilals kft on the lower Cache la Poudre River will he lost forever to <br />developers. The tllerttc of gravel m[ning to benefit wildlife has been a hoax. Further <br />expwtsion of this permit to tttitw slwuld be stopped. <br />New permits to mine xhould be LssueJ fur further expansion. '1'hc last twenty years under <br />the present pcrmifcellcd 'Three Dell;has not been followed. The ownership of the <br />property has ohmrged numy times. The'trcw owncr~ arc nut willing to follow the terms of <br />the old ptYinit. Therofore, a new permit should be required before any more gravel pits <br />are opened. <br />For these reasons rite followutg wmmunity members arc opposed to file new change ill <br />the post-mined Lurd uec: - <br />Printed Name: v~trJ +' ~~iJtyA ~~- <br />Signed Name: ~ /'~-,.r~~ <br />Address: .3?c{ LG2. j lJ LNVS~2 <br />P01 <br />Telepkwnc: ~"7,0 ~~ ~ ~) ~ <br />