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-•,-- 3EIDLE"tP.v, 2ICHP.R~r„ <br />'' cctt Street <br />Colorado Springs, CO <br />' 8090E <br />Date: 23 Jul~:~, 1989 <br />• III Illllllllllll III <br />sss <br />R~C~~ ~E <br />~~ ~, ~ <br />~ ` 5 1989 <br />re: Castle Concrete 'luarrvins Cclorado Sprir.;_s a_ MINED <br />~C~MAT I p~ d VISI pN <br />Enclcsures: <br />1. P.dditional fugitive dust violaticr.s <br />2. Photograph (cclor) showinc past _°upitive dust care lessr.ess -~.t <br />Queen's Canyon Ouarry, P7ote: f(tl present there is seldom a <br />day *.ahen a violation can not be obser~~ed at either the B?.ack <br />Canvcn (Snyder) or Pikeview (Lennox-Breed) ~uarr•:~, There is <br />currAnt'_v little dust-rising activity at queen's Canyon, I <br />would cite the two puarries mentioned above as th_ 'lumber 1 <br />point source for air pollution particulates ir. the Cc'_orada <br />Sprints area, There seer:.s to be little attsmot a± contre7.. <br />3. Phetogr=_^'z (b1acY.~nd white) sho!ain~ gross carelessness in overwall <br />dumping ("spill") of tailings at ~ueer.'s Canvon ~uarrv in 197u, <br />As I r..enticned ir. ar. earlier re^ort tc you, stror.~ ^romises were <br />Wade by Castle that there would Se no s,illing at queen's Canvor„ <br />IUSt d5 curre r.t DrO.*.'25°_S ire b?_!ln made '+llth r°_sOeCt tO `.iD=115 <br />into ':.'illiam's Can•~on. T_he histcric r_cerd and rhotcrranhic <br />evidence does not bear out this premise, <br />4, Copv of Castle Concrete's brochure ca 1971+ cor.cernine operations <br />ar,d reclamation plans. <br />PIOTE: re reclamation and revesetation. From the very beginning (196 g, <br />more than two decades ano), veeetational aeclamation at guar:^ies has <br />been haphazard (though somewhat less so today than in the pa;st), with <br />littl_ knowledge of and concern _°or the oriF_inal vegetative ~~ever. <br />For example, at Queen's Canyon quarr~~ where formerly there had been <br />on the upper slope a dense cover of brushland, mainly mountain mahogany, <br />reclamation involved grasses and legumes (mostly exotics), early <br />publicity plantings of ponderosa pines and pinyon pines (neither cf <br />which had occurred on the reclamation site), hundreds of yucca (most <br />of which died), 3000 seedl'nF conifers (most o° which d'edj, etC. <br />Bushes which were planted (ca 1969) were mostly exotics which died <br />n.,T et' <br />within, a fewer; ears. 1 /, 1 <br />1 ~1 .o ~ ItiLJ- W u J `~S O u~ h4 5LL L Lw VIA GK 'R7 bl <br />SKZ.p~LG~ t{.pa ~ JLVC~GT4'4'w+, $vLGc55 LS~~-IK))7 <br />--- - iv-C ~/"G7+PL~lv-l ~ ~~vn ~Y'~b - ' -S ~~1'is ~- -~ <br />