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Eureka Gravel Pit Operation San Juan County road department will be conducting a gravel crushing and screening plant operation on the proposed location at the old Eureka townsite on county road /E2 7.8 miles northeast of Silverton Colorado, township 42 north, range 6 west,section 19. The proposed site will be.a dry alluvial operation not affecting any ground water the porposed site has minimal or no vegetation on the slope where material will be extracted just one or two scrub pine trees. The staging or crushing and stocking piling site at the botton of the slope has some large pines and willows the county will protect these trees and if any tree is damaged or destroyed the county will replace the tree with a similar tree.-The'praposedas3teel3as~nb'YOp§oi3-ou'.Ehe-S2poe and does not support any type of wildlife because of the type of material and the slope angle. The proposed site is a louval fan at the base of Eureka mountian on the old Eureka tome site near the old sunnyside mill site. There are no man made structures within 300 feet of the proposed site. The material excavation for gravel will be from the old bench road about 60 feet above the crushing and stockpiling area. The county will push material down from the bench road with a D7 tractor to the bottom area where 950 loaders will tram the material to the crushing and screening plants and the finished material will be stockpiled for future use. The county will be extracting 12,000 yards of gravel material a year over the next five years. San Juan County and the county road and bridge department has obtained permission from the owner and operator of the proposed site and also permission from the $LM on the adjoining lands to conduct material excavation and gravel crushing operations on there lands. The county has signed a lease agreement with the owner operators and have been issued a free use permit by the BLM the county has inclosed a copy of both documents. The excavation of gravel material will commence one week after the MLRD notifies the county that they have okyed the application. This should be around June 25, 1990 and operations should cease on October 17, 1990. In the following years gravel excavation will commence on June 1st, and end on October 20th. The equiptment the county will use are D7E Tractor, DS tractor, 950 wheel loader a Read Model 40 Screen All plant. The crushing plant will be on hire from a private contractor the contractor will be under the direct supervision of the county road supervisor and will have to conduct reclamation efforts as part of their contract with the county. San Juan County asking for permission to exrtact gravel material from this site because this is the most logical site due to the county roads that the county is planning to upgrade over the next few years. The county is also replacing seveeal bridges in the county and need the gravel and roadbase to complete the work of road relocation and buildup..The largest factor for upgrading the road is the .new desig- nation by the BLM as part of the new Alpine Loop and the drastic inc2e~8~-i~%ttxar8st~: and fourwheel driving in swan Juan Bounty.