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- ~ • III IIIIIIIIIIIII III • 999 RECEIVED NOV 0 4 1994 z A 21710 Highway 550 South Montrose , Colorado 81401 Division 01 Minerals 8 Geology November 1, 1994 Mr. James Dillie, Environmental Protection Specialist State of Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology 1313 Sherman Street Denver, Colorado 80203 Dear Mr. Dillie: We object to the expansion of the Colons Pit operated by United Companies of Grand Junction from the existing 27 acres that your agency approved to the proposed 80 acres to the year 2014 for the same reasons we opposed their initial permit application - 1.) The serious, documented health issues of Dorothy E. Becker and Emma A. Blanch, the Chuck Head family who reside at 22174 Highway 550, and the daughter of our renter who lives at 21704 Highway 550 (her allergies were so aggravated by the dust this summer that for the first time she had to have shots). 2.) The impact on wildlife habitat, domestic water and irrigation systems. 3.) The financial repercussions for the people in this immediate vicinity whose livelihood depends on tourism, the devaluation of everyone's property in this section of the community and the physical damage to buildings and their contents and vehicles from constant exposure to noise, vibration and airborne dust and asphalt emissions. ~ Written promises by United Companies to plant seed on the berme to prevent erosion of topsoil and trees along their property opposite our house to act as a buffer against noise and duet have yet to be fulfilled. Yea, occasionally, they do sprinkle their road with water, but that does nothing for the airborne particles from conveyor belts that eoar far above our house. Foolishly, none of us had the foresight to record the pre- hearinge that you conducted in Montrose since what was said in front of my family, County Commissioner Cindy Bowen, a candidate running for commissioner and a writer from the Montrose Daily Preen is not the way things turned out. No one from your office, at your own admission, has ever stepped foot on this property and measured distances (remember telling us that even the road had to be 200' away from existing structures?). No one, to our knowledge, and with our permission, from Western Colorado Testing, Inc. has come here or contacted us, to quote your letter of June 3, 1994, "...that adequately demonstrated, to the satisfaction of the Division, that the mining operation will not adversely affect the man-made structure (the Becker residence) that is within Z00 feet of the affected land."