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~ III IIIIIIIIIIIII Ill 999 5 v State stops gravel crushing Dolores County is no longer in the gravel business. The Colorado Division of Mining has called a sudden and abrupt halt to county crushing operations and County Road Supervisor Tim Huskey says that's not funny. A cease and desist order from the State took effect July 18, just days before a contractor was supposed to set up at the Barley pit b crush a year's worth of gravel The penalty for further use of the pit before appropriate permits aze issued could be S1,00p px day. This isn't a problem that arose overnight, but to the principles involved, it seems that way. The County originally applied for and received mining permits for its gravel pits, but over the years, those permits expired. Huskey took the job as road supervisor just over a year ago and LeRoy Gore became commissioner this spring. Both were surprised when an inspector blew the whistle, claiming that the County had both expanded the Bartley pit well beyond what records showed, (Corllirttted on papa 12~ - • DOVE CREEK PRESS Dove Creek, CO (Dolores Counry) {Corninued from page ~~ and had been operating all its pits without permits. It will take at least a month to get the permits through the state bureaucracy, even though no one expects any problems in the permi[tfng process, "'Ibis seems to lend credence to the idea that society has educated itself to the point of imbecility," said Commissioner Bill Moffat. Moffat was serious when he turned to County AROmey Guy Dyer and said, "Surely tJrere's somebody in Denver we can call on this. We need an exclusion for thirty days or something." "I have three miles of road down there on Squaw Point that I have to gravel this summer. I suppose they don't care about that in Denver;' said Road Superintendent Tim Huskey "Not one bit,' Dyer replied. Dyer thought it might be more productive to try to borrow gravel from somebody who had a permit and pay i[ back later. Huskey wasnY convinced. "Nobody around here has sandrock," he said. Plan B calls for research into laws governing sandrock pits in Utah. "Maybe somebody in Utah has a permit we can use," Huskey said. As far as Colorado is concerned, the course seems fairly clear; wait and hope for quick passage of the pertit. I~~ ~ L.~s r~~ ~cP,t,is~ R ~w (~~ ~ ~ ~,,,4,,,e, ~o Y'~' iw °4'~t.,5 rt><ravei...