_ENFORCEMENT - M1978352 ‎(11)‎

• Permit No: M1978352
• IBM Index Class Name: Enforcement
• Doc Name: AFFIDAVIT OF MARK A HEIFNER 79-CV-1633
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

j Nottingham It• 18 on the agenda. •
2 The parties here from Eagle River Trust
3MH: Nottingham S & G File NO. 78-352. This is a new Nottingham
4 Sand & Gravel operation, although it' s in an area that has �- -
5 been operated for sand and gravel source for many years in
6 the past. This application is for 29 acre gravel pit located
7 about 3� miles east of Gypsum and it' s just north of Highway 5.
8 Between Highways 6 & 24 and the pit is the Rio Grande Railroad.
9 The present land use is of very marginal range land, mainly
10 due to the intermittent gravel mining that several parties
11 have conducted in the past. As a result much of the area is
12 fairly well torn up now. The soils at the site are very
13 thin, to nonexistent. This is the affected lands area here.
14 The soils along this southern edge here are a little bit
15 better than the rest of the soils but it' s not really enough
16 to speak of. Very little, if any, soil will actually be
17 saved at the site. They will mine about 200 lineal feet, on
18 the base. There' s a base of cliff that goes along here and
19 they ' ll mine 200 feet in this direction moving back in this
20 direction here. They would start phase 1 mining in this way
21 or start here phase 2 and then phase 3. Each one of those
22 phases constitutes about 5 years worth of mining. They 'd be
23 mining to a depth of about 30 to 35 feet. There is a ditch,
24 you see where it runs along here, the stream gates ditch,
25 runs along much or all of the northern boundary of the pit.
26 Coming up to that ditch they won' t mine below the level of
27 that ditch, seen in here, in phase 1 and phase 2. From the
28 face of the gravel that would be left, out to the ditch land
29 would be fairly level . Now when you do get into phase 3
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