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r~'" ~~~ III IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII • HENRYA.INTO • ~Els~O~~® <br />571 Nob Hill Trail <br />Franktown, CO 80116 <br />(303) 688-2813 AU G 111989 <br />MINED LAND <br />CERTIFIED MAIL, RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTI~CLAMATION DIWISION <br />August 9, 1989 <br />Mr. Fred R. Banta, Director <br />Mined Land Reclamation Division <br />423 Centennial Building <br />1313 Sherman Street <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Subject: Request for Mining Permit, File # F89-456 <br />Hallett Materials and Joe Winkler <br />Dear Mr. Banta: <br />It is our understanding that State Senator Joe Winkler has filed <br />an application for a mining permit with the Mined Land <br />Reclamation Division, involving some 1606 acres more or less on <br />his property in Douglas County. It is also our understanding <br />that he has a signed lease with Hallett Materials to operate the <br />mine, with the probability of asphalt and/or concrete batch <br />plants in conjunction with the mining operation. It is also our <br />understanding that there may or may not be a public hearing at <br />any time regarding this permit application. This letter is to <br />express our strong opposition to the granting of any such permit. <br />In the recent media publicity regarding the proposed mining <br />activities, it is claimed that only about twenty acres at a <br />time will be disturbed, according to Mr. James Barrett of Hallett <br />Materials; that only about twelve to twenty trucks per day will <br />leave the property; and that there will be no adverse effects on <br />Castlewood Canyon State Park. We find all of these claims to <br />be unbelievable if not preposterous. <br />The Walker Pit in Franktown, permitted for forty eight (NOT <br />1600!) acres has been found to have tuck traffic in and out of <br />well in excess of 100 trucks per day. On that basis, one might <br />well expect an incredible procession of trucks in and out of <br />Senator Winkler's property, since there is no guarantee that <br />only a few acres at a time will be mined. What restraint is <br />there to prevent him from mining, say, four hundred eighty acres <br />at once, with in excess of a thousand trucks a day in and out? <br />There is already too much heavy truck traffic on State Highways <br />83 and 86. Allowing this traffic to multiply will create safety <br />hazards which can not be tolerated, and road damage which will <br />obviously not be paid for by the offending trucks. <br />Interestingly, it was Senator Winkler who found that a proposed <br />