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M1977247
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Revision
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4/24/2007
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Ltr of Protest- Hard Copy
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A~ <br />/~ ~ Z <br />Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety Apri123, 2007 <br />RE: Coaldale Gypsum Quarry <br />1515 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 ~~~ <br />. ,,P. <br />~ /q/J~? <br />Bennett R. and Rogers J. Bailey ~~ !~ <br />250 High Peaks Ranch Road ~'S%o~ 9a ~~ <br />PO Box 251 ~~~%nga aeeja~~OJ <br />Coaldale, Colorado 81222 Safea;;~ <br />(~ ~ <br />Letter of Protest <br />Please do not allow.Holcim to re-open the Coaldale Gypsum Quarry. Re-opening the <br />Coaldale Gypsum Quarry southwest of Coaldale is the reason for this letter of protest. <br />Holcim's intentions are a clear threat to the value of my property and integrity of my <br />home's foundation. My property is located on the northern boundary of the Coaldale <br />Quarry. This property was mine property when it was in operation! Ina 1996 meeting <br />with Ken Chlo, we were assured that it highly unlikely that this quarry would ever re- <br />open. We have been betrayed! <br />In January of 1996, I approached Ken Chlo (then the Coaldale Gypsum Quarry <br />superintendent) with the inquiry of future operations in the mine. I had already been to <br />Colorado Division of Reclamation to ascertain the status of Coaldale Gypsum Quarry, <br />then owned by Domtar. They gave me the information I needed to contact Ken Chlo. He <br />was then the only representative of Domtar who was in a position to discuss the mine <br />operations. He told me that the mine'should never re-open, since the high quality <br />gypsum had already been extracted. They were mostly finished terra-forming and <br />planting trees. <br />We and three other parties bought former mine property parcels with the understanding <br />that Domtar would never re-open the mine. Since then three of us have built or began <br />building our retirement homes on these parcels. <br />Given that, our homes were engineered for a normal setting in these Colorado mountains. <br />The Architects and engineers are required to engineer the foundations for these new <br />homes to withstand various extremes. One of these extremes is the danger of earthquake. <br />The standard in this area is one significant event over a period many years, (10 years, I <br />believe). Blasting creates a small seismic event. Now Holcim, is telling us that we may <br />have to withstand something between 128 and 220 separate seismic events in the next 32 <br />years. Our house and foundation was not engineered for this extreme. <br />Our properties, as well as being former mine property, are located on an uncomformable <br />contact of unconsolidated recent sediments that lie very at a steep angle on top of the <br />much older sediments that also are in the mine proper. The sediment that makes up the <br />mine and surrounding hillsides dips steeply, and were faulted in all three dimensions <br />
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