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- Colorado Springs, Colorado <br />22 October 1977 <br />Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board <br />723 Centennial Building <br />1313 Sherman Street <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />The undersigned citizens respectfully request the Reclamation Board <br />to schedule a public hearing In Colorado Springs during xeek-end or evening <br />hours to consider our verbal objections to Castle Concrete's pending <br />applications to continue mining activities in our community, <br />Our protest x111 stress several points <br />1. Public documents filed by Castle Concrete in Colorado Springs <br />at the E1 Paso County Clerk and Recorder's Office exclude <br />reclamation plans from public scrutiny, These plans are stamped <br />"confidential", <br />2, Castle's actions speak louder than their xords, The company has <br />xrought almost total devastation at Snyder, Queen's Canyon and <br />Pikeview quarries; clearly evident to the casual or trained observer. <br />3, We request the Reclamation Board to inspect this devastation and to <br />review reclamation activities within the upper twelve acres at <br />Queen's Canyon which border on total failure after many years,* <br />4, Castle Conrete should be judged on almost txo decades of dismal <br />reclamation performance, Surety should be significantly increased <br />to insure adequate reclamation, <br />5, Mining permits should be denied until Castle submits convincing <br />evidence of successful reclamation efforts within a realistic <br />time limit, <br />7~-2 ~~ <br />* see: "A Report on Queen's Canyon Quarry" <br />Colorado Springs Park and Recreation Department <br />Design and Development Division <br />~ovenber 1, 1974 <br />