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..• <br />July 25, 1997 <br />Susan Steers <br />0110 County Road 157 <br />P.O. Box 1193 <br />Canon Ciry, C0 B1215-1193 <br />Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denvrr, CO 80203 <br />Dear Sirs; <br />My husband and I live directly in front of the proposed gravel and strip mine area in Parkdale, Colorado, <br />Permit 1rCUP 97-5. Agile Stone Systems, Inc. is requesting a Life of the Mine Conditional Use Permit at <br />this site and I am most concerned about the fotlowirto: <br />Blasting five days per week of granite rock located directly above a known geological fault line <br />without any surveys or research into how that may affect landslides or rock slippage or even <br />re-activation of the fault in this area. Also, item 24 in Agile 5tone's Conditional Use Permit <br />Application states that your department will "assure that the property will be properly reclaimed' ; <br />however, from what I have been given to understand, there is no reclamation process available for the <br />hench cut mining of the mountain -only scarring. <br />Agile Stone Systems, Inc. is asking for a permit to mine 513.2 acres altogether. Their mapped mining <br />area adds up to 128 (just under 25% of the total permitted area). According to these figures they wilt <br />not have to reclaim any portion of the land. In addition, none of the permits agree with each other as <br />to the total area to be mined. One adds up to 128 acres, another permit adds up to about 57 acres , <br />and during the July 22nd meeting 1`fr. Fehr stated they would be mining only 77 acres. <br />Also, to access the North side of Tallahassee Creek by rail and car Agile is only proposing to utilize <br />corrugated metal pipe culverts. They aze planning 2~ hour per day, 7 day per week operation, mainte- <br />nance and loading of the rail cars and rail line and 16 hour operations for trucking. Our own well source <br />tnay be interrupted because of their activities: and access off of County Road ] ~7 onto Highway 50 is an <br />awkward location for major traffic egress and ingress, an invitation to traffic jams. <br />I am not against commerce and industry in the Fremont County area, I am against commerce and industry <br />without regulation and careful governance -especially when it's in my back yard. I am hoping that your <br />department will not allow tins pruject to go forward without the regulations that will protect our area. <br />Thank you for considering my concerns. <br />Sincerely, <br />Susan steers <br />ec: Governor Roy Romer, Senator Kcn Chloubcr, Rcprescntati~•c Larry Schwarz <br />