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iiiiuiiimin-- <br />~- Er~vir~gr~e~t, ~r~c. <br />LARRY E. O~BR~AN <br />PR[tIDfNT <br />October 1, 1981 <br />0. S. Army Corps of Engineers <br />Regulatory Unit 4 <br />2784 Cross Roads Boulevard <br />Grand Junction, CO 31501 <br />Attention Mr. Rodney Noods <br />Sis. Terry Bowman, AsGistant Planner <br />Garfield County Planning Department <br />2014 °la;ce Avenue <br />Glenwood Springs, CO 81601 <br />Mr. Brad Janes <br />Reclamation Specialist <br />Mined Land Reclamation <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 423 <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br />Ladies and Gentlemen, <br />9989 WEST 80TH AVENUE <br />ARVADA,COLORADO 80004 <br />aoa-~s-~2s~ <br />~~~~~~ <br />O~ ~ a ,~ 19a1 <br />~,qNU ~EG1-PM souo es <br />fA1N~D of Na~+~a1 R <br />Cale. ~~' <br />Re Albert Frei & Sons, Inc. - Silt Pit - Garfield County, Colorado <br />Certain lands in Sections 11 and 12, Township 6 South, Range 92 <br />1Vest, 6th P.M. in Garfield County, Colorado, south of the Colorado <br />River, are underlain by commercial sand and gravel deposits. Parts <br />oP these lands are presently irrigated croplands. Approximately <br />40 percent of the area to be mined could be considered wetkands. <br />Operations will be carried out by dewatering, stripping, mining, <br />regrading, sloping and allowing the pit excavated to refill with <br />water to create a private recreation area and perhaps in later <br />years a pleasant residential area. There will be excavation of the <br />wetland area, but no backfilling or silting will occur. We expect <br />the total wetland area to be increased rather than decreased. <br />The material to be extracted from this operation must be moved east <br />and west along Interstate 70. In order to reach I-70, traffic may <br />proceed west along County Road 331 for approximately 3/4 mile; <br />thence north along County Road 311 across two 15-ton load limit <br />bridges a distance of 1/2 mile to the I-70 frontage road; thence <br />west 3/8 mile to the I-70 on-ramp. The weak load limit of the <br />bridges makes them valueless as a route for sand and gravel truck <br />traffic until such time as the bridges are reinforced or rebuilt. <br />In order to avoid these bridges, a plan has been devised to transport <br />the finished products from the excavation and processing plant site <br />south of the river to a small loading site north of the river. Then <br />the aggregate will be stored in elevated bins that will gravity-load <br />