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• • ~ III IIIIIIIIIIIII III <br />-- 999 <br />~~~I,~~ <br />Boz 6035, We <br />Colorado Spy 1~ <br />April 24, 1< ~~~v <br />i <br />U~I2~~1'G1_-l~~w~ r <br />Governor Roy Romer ~ ~~ aZ3q <br />State Capitol Building ~~.,~ <br />Denver,Colorado 80203 JF"' <br />_'~":~ <br />Dear Sir: <br />FILE ~'~. <br />This is a plea that the Castle Concrete Company's re_ <br />quest to the Mined Land Reclamation Board to develop a mining <br />operation in the Snyder N,uarry in the near future not be al_ <br />lowed, If there is any way you can assist in preventing this, <br />it would surely be appreciated by all those, like myself, who <br />find the destruction of the Front Range offensive, I deplore <br />the plan to destroy this area near Williams Canyon and the Cave <br />of the Winds twenty years from now, and allowing this to take <br />place in the next few years is intolerable, <br />Castle Concrete has not demonstrated any signlficant re- <br />gard for the aesthetics of the area, and has made only minimal <br />reclamation efforts in the to cations it has already defaced, <br />Once removed, the natural appearance of the Front Range will <br />never be restored, so any further request to add to the destruc_ <br />tion which has already occurred should be most carefully considered, <br />It is not as if this grade of limestone could not be obtained <br />elsewhere, The trucks might not be able to use the main highways <br />and their drivers might have to go further, but I think that <br />would be a much more ecologically sound solution than systemati_ <br />tally destroying acres of natural beauty, <br />I live opposite one of Castle Concrete s operationsand I <br />have watched in dismay the clouds of dust that rise regularly <br />from their blasting, The loaded trucks turn onto the freeway <br />directly below my house and these trucks are never covered, so <br />the dust and gravel from their loads trails them as far as they go, <br />Surely with environmental protection currently being em_ <br />phasized as it is, allowing this mining operation is in no way <br />desirable, and if it cannot be stopoed completely, it should be <br />postponed as long as possible, I hope that you, and all others <br />with any influence in the matter, will say "finough:" before it <br />is too late, <br />Yours very truly, <br />(DSR . ) KATHERIA'E L, WALKER <br />