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~ III IIIIIIIIIIIII III sss Mr. Bob Oswald Division of Minerals and Geology Durango Field Office 701 Camino Del Rio, Room 125 Durango, CO 8]30] 970-247-5193 September 14, 2000 ~E~t/E~4 PUB • Daniel M. Russell ius Pit Permit No. M-95-034 9042 South 106 Road Alamosa, Colorado 81101 719-589-3004 ext. 110 (wl ~ ~@~V~d LIC FI OFFICE FILE: E COPY SITE:Q `~9 s -O3~ ft4~~Jt~~R fv:Jr~ ~„o, ~.aZ RE: Request for permission to place inert rubble in Bachus Pit, M-95-034 Deaz Bob: SfP18~~ O~~o~e ~ Geol ~9y As per our conversation on Thursday, the old Ortega Middle School in Alamosa is being removed to make room for the new Safeway Store. The building is a 2-story brick building build in 1932 (?). Prior to demolition, the building has been professionally abated of all asbestos and deemed safe for removal. I do not know how to estimate volumes of standing buildings converted to rubble but I would estimate a maximum of 20,000 yazds of rubble to be placed in my pit. The bottom of the pit is currently at an elevation of 7548 or higher, 2 feet or more above the water table. The soil is very dry. If during demolition I determine that some of the brick and rock represents salvageable material, I will have it dumped on the bottom of the pit spread out to allow access to recover the usable brick. The majority of the material being brought into the pit will be placed along the west side of the pit, on the bottom, and covered during the demolition process. Depending upon the actual volume to be disposed of, the most western portion of the pit may be returned to neazly pre-mining elevations of 7562 with a minimum of 2 feet of pit run dirt being placed on top of the rubble. The rubble will be compacted by the dozer working at the pit and the same dozer will be utilized to cover it. As the rubble is brought in, it will be worked and moved into position to compact it and position it for covering it. This operation will not affect my reclamation plan. The backfilled and covered rubble will be treated the same as any other surface in the pit, with appropriate seeding and fertilizer. At this point, I am not certain that I will actually have the building placed in the pit, rather I may choose to only have that part that represents some salvage value. The contractor does have other alternative site to take the material to. His time frame for demolition appeazs to have been moved up from November to his current schedule of beginning at the end of September and completion by the end of October.