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RAFTER 26 RANCH "~ <br />Lee W. Rooks <br />]?O Hox 323 <br />Buena Vista, CO 81211 <br />719 395 9014 <br />December9, 2002 <br />Mr. Harty Posey / <br />Dhrision of Minerals Geology <br />1313 Sherman Street <br />Room 215 <br />Denier, CO 80203 <br />DearMr. Posey, <br />RECElVED~ <br />DEC 1 t 2002 <br />Division of Minerals and Geola9Y <br />Da3 <br />~~ O l <br /> <br />I am writing to obJedao Pemnit# M-78-192 a Conversion applicetion by Chaffee County. <br />I am an adjacent landownerto this proposed pit and am very cencemed about the potential <br />problems wkh this appllratlon. <br />m their application, Chaffee f~tmtq neglected to mention that after they abandor-ed this pit marry <br />years ago, they dug several large pits on the property and used it as a place to dump raw sewage. <br />These pits were unlined and the raw sewage leached into the soil. When a pit reached saturation, <br />theydug a new pit Manytimes the rewsewage was just dumped on the ground in various places <br />around the property. These sewage pits and Chaffee County's sewage predices were in violation of <br />EPA regulations. After several years of this practice, the EPA eventually dosed the pits and forced <br />the county to install several monitaringwells around the propeRy. <br />I am concerned that the reopening of th1s pit will eventually lead to the spreading of chemicals, <br />fete! material and fatally contaminated soil into the air and onto the roads of Chaffee County. I <br />am also concerned [fiat any disruption ofthe now sealed pits wiifiead to mole of the contaminants <br />leaching into the groundwater. The pits were dug in many locations around the property and just <br />dumped on the ground, so itwould require every scoop of dirttaken from the pit be tested in order <br />to verify that there were no chemicals or fecal matter in the soil. <br />While Chaffee Countystates thatthere will be minimal intrusion to the surrounding landowners, <br />therewill be a considerable change in the state of the area. There will be numerous heavy trucks <br />traveling on a previously quiet county road. This road and proposed pitwill border our cattle <br />grazing land. qs I have stated, this is a quiet county road, so there isn't a fence separating our <br />pasture from the road and our cows will be on the road with the trades. Since Chaffee County has <br />