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Mr. Jerry White <br />Larimer County Planning Division <br />April 25, 1995 <br />Page 2 <br />Connell currently has sand and gravel mining, an asphalt batch plant, and headquarters just <br />north of the proposed Wellington Downs permit site (known as the Stute Pit). They have <br />been operating the Stute Pit since 1990. Connell supplies local, county, and state <br />governments as well private industry with aggregate and asphalt. Cornell has just about <br />exhausted the sand and gravel reserves and is in the process of reclaiming the site. <br />Therefore, they need to relocate their mining operation to the Wellington Downs Deposit. <br />The Wellington Downs site has been drilled and contains an estimated of 1.2 million cubic <br />yards of sand and gravel reserve. The average depth of the deposit is ten feet below the <br />overburden depth of 4.5 feet. <br />Currently Connell uses and/or sells between 200,000 and 250,000 cubic yazds of aggregate <br />material a yeaz. They expect to keep this same rate of production at the Wellington Downs <br />sites. They will mine between 10 to 15 acres a year. At this rate of mining they expect to <br />mine and reclaim the site in eight to ten yeazs. Reclamation will be concurrent with <br />mining. <br />The final reclamation plan for the site is a lined water storage reservoir. The DMG Pre- <br />mining/Mining Plan Exhibit shows the dimensions of the lake. <br />Expected member of clients/patrons per day. Connell serves anywhere between 50 and 100 <br />clients a yeaz. Due to the nature of their business, supplier of asphalt and sand and gravel <br />base materials, they generally get hired for lazger contract projects that require a lazge <br />quantity of material. As mentioned above they serve local and state governments and <br />private industry. <br />Number of employees. Connell will employ about 20 people at this operation. <br />4. Days and hours of operation. Monday through Saturday, 7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. <br />5. Projected daily tragic to and from the site. Through the sale of their products, Connell will <br />generate truck traffic onto County Road # 36 and County Road # 7. Connell expects to <br />mine between 200,000 and 250,000 tons of aggregate annually. They expect an average <br />carrying weight of 23 tons/truck. For the purpose of this daily truck traffic prediction a <br />truck load is defined as a loaded truck leaving the site. A truck trip is any truck entering <br />of leaving the site. Therefore, one loaded wck actually generates two truck trips. <br />