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• IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII • <br />~- 11 ;~ ~ ~F COLOP~O <br />CI~LORADO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ,~tt o, <br />~W: q ~.ti <br />J 710 Eaet 11th A~~en ue /~q ~±+! ~ <br />ne~~.Fr. c~~r,~oe~, eoz.n R E C E 11/ E D ~~,~_~~~~, <br />r~no~~t, (w 11 a.u-a.aas ~., <br />\ ,/A ]6 ~ <br />~% <br />F.ugust 21, 1989 <br />AUG 28 1989 <br />Nuy Nnmrr <br />MINED LAND `,"~~r~~, <br />RECLA ihnma< h1. Vernon, M.U <br />MATION DIVISION a>~~~~~~e DueUOr <br />Wiliam G. Carpenter, President <br />P1 & Pi Paining Company <br />c/o Drum Construction Company <br />Clymer Avenue <br />Telford, Pennsylvania 1.8969 Certified Ptail No.: <br />RE: Reported Discharge of Pollutants, M & M Mining Company, Snowstorm <br />Site, No CDPS Permit, Park County. <br />Dear N,r. Carpenter: <br />This office has received a number of complaints that runoff water from <br />r_he Snowstorm Site of M & Pi Mining Company has been discharged into the <br />Piiddle Fork of the South Platte River. The discharge was reported co <br />have occurred between Friday, August 11, 1989 and Pfonday, August 14, 1989. <br />As this facility does r.ot have a CDPS permit as required by 25-8-501(1) <br />Colorado kevised Statutes, this discharge represents possible "Criminal <br />pollution of State waters" as defined by 25-8-609 Colorado Revised <br />Statutes and would be subject to the penalties described under that <br />section of the law. Also, as the company did not report the violation, <br />Sectio^ 25-8-601(2) would have also been violated. I am enclosing a copy <br />of these sections of Colorado Revised Statutes (Colorado Water Quality <br />Act) for your reference. <br />I did not actually see the discharge reaching the river during my <br />znvestigatien of the incident. on August 14, 1989. However, a large <br />amount of highly turbid runoff water from the facility was flowing under <br />Colorado Highway 9. A large portion of this runoff had flowed through <br />the catch basin toward the river. Tne turbid condition of the river <br />downstream of the facility indicated that the discharge had previously <br />reached the river. <br />I have been told by several reliable witnesses that they saw the <br />pollutants enter the river. <br />This office is not pursuing formal euforcement action at this time. <br />However, we will pursue enforcement action on any future discharges. <br />