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Steve and Maria Herndon <br />facility. All of these contaminates would be in the dirt. sand and gravel that will travel down into <br />our valley. as well as get into our ground water. <br />With the type of operation that is being_pronosed, it would be unreasonable to think that Rocky <br />Mountain would not be moving Hart of their Trucking operations to this area. There aze many <br />environmental wastes that aze produced by the garage operations of a trucking company. If this <br />was not a residentiaUagricultural area, this would not be a big deal. However, as mentioned <br />above, the run off from rains and snows, as well as airborne contaminates that will be produced <br />by the amount of wind here, is also not acceptable. <br />SoapWeed is a dirt road. We currently have to deal with the small amount of traffic already <br />produced by the gravel p_it. Although the proposal indicates that the route heading north on <br />SoapWeed would be the main route. the policy would only be enforceable relative to Rocky <br />Mountain trucks. As with other pits and plants, there would be a multitude of contractors and by <br />hire tracks that would not be obligated to follow those rules. The entire length of SoapWeed will <br />be a route for all these trucks. Given the proposed amount of outflow of just the rg avel pit <br />expansion (not includingthe concrete and asphalt), the degradation of the road would be very <br />rapid. Even asphalting the road is not a simple solution. In order to make the road maintainable, <br />there will need to be curbs to keep the edges of the asphalt from crumbling and hence, <br />contaminating our property. This contamination of asphalt chunks makes the edge of our <br />property a hazard for our cattle and our horses. The cost of curbs is very high and therefore. <br />makes this solution not probable. Using crushed concrete or other packable aggregate still has <br />the problem of eventually crumblin ag t edges, breaking apart and contaminating.properties. This <br />contamination would be the result of the oil, grease, fuel, and transmission fluid that would <br />accumulate from the amount of truck traffic on the road. The cost of maintaining SoapWeed <br />would increase at a very steep rate. - <br />The increased traffic will also cause additional air contaminates (dust and exhaust pollution) that <br />will be carried directly into our houses. As welh the safety of our children waiting for the bus or <br />simply walking down the road is not acceptable. The length of SoapWeed is also a wonderful <br />trail to ride our horses, but with this kind of truck traffic, that would have to stop. L,et us explain <br />what the traffic is like now. Currently the traffic starts azound 9 a.m. and ends azound 3:30 p.m. <br />This is not so bad. However. these trucks traverse the road at 45 to 60 m.p.h. A ag in, given the <br />proposed amount of outflow of the gravel pit expansion, the non-Rocky Mountain trucks would <br />start lining the mad at the pit entrance, waiting for the pit to open. in order to iostle for position. <br />This is a current practice at other pits and plants. Even the Rocky Mountain trucks would start <br />coming earlier in order to jostle for position among the others. Now the traffic will start <br />interfering with our children going and coming home from school, as well as those of us who use <br />the road to simply exercise, walk our dogs and ride our horses. Now, given the proposal for <br />lights for this facility, that implies eazly moraine, evening and night hours. In addition to the <br />daily jostling of track for position, all of this activity will happen all day long=potentially 24 <br />hours a day! This traffic. noise, airborne contaminates. let alone run off contaminants, smell and <br />simply the sight of this industrial activity is, again, not acceptable. <br />We all live on wells in our azea. The potential contamination of our water sources is not <br />acceptable. We all purchased our agricultural property with full knowledge that eventuall~+ the <br />City of Colorado Spring, or even Denver, would eventually come to our area None of us ever <br />anticipated our area to become a location of the type of industrial facility that produces such high <br />volume of contaminates. This is an agricultural and residential area. We aze greatly opposed to <br />2 of 3 <br />