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I r ~. . .~~. fM~~ UPPER BLACK SQUIItREL CREEK GROUND WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT 520 COLORADO AVENUE, SUITE C CALHAN, COLORADO 80808 Oflice (719)347-0704 Fax (719)347-9423 President Dean Gass 24PA0 Falo~n I3ighway Calhaz~, Cotnmd 80808 (719) 6&34295 January 2, 2006 DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY Department of Natural Resources 1313 Sherman St., Room 215 Denver, Colorado 80203 Re: Sokol Pit, File No. M-1980-193 To whom it may concern: Legal Counsel Kim Lawrence Lind, Lawrence 8c Odenhoff, Llp The Law Building 10]1 Eleventh Avenue Greelry, Ca7orado8~3] (970)3569160 RECEIVED JAN 0 3 2006 Division of Mi~~erels and Geology This office was contacted by several concerned landowner in regards to where the Upper Black Squirrel Creek Ground Water Management District stood on the issue of the Sokol Gravel Pit expansion, to which we had no prior knowledge of. We have since reviewed a copy ofthe application and your Rational for approval. We respectfully request an explanation as to why the Upper Black Squirrel Creek Ground Water Management District was not notified of the applicants intent to expand the Sokol gravel pit, File No. M-1980-193. The Boazd of Directors of the UBSCGWMD would liked to have been party to this procedure. The Sokol pit is in the UBSCGWMD, and has an alluvium well with the permit No. 115606, which is a Domestic/Livestock permit, with an annual appropriation not to exceed 1 acre-foot per yeaz. Upon reading the Rational, there are some concerns that the Board would have liked to been able to address. According to the Rational the applicant states that they will continue to utilize the existing well that they have been using to wash the sand or apply for a new well permit. If they are indeed utilizing the above mentioned well, they are in direct violation of said well permit. There were numerous water engineering facts stated in the Rational, and the Upper Black Squirrel Board should have been given the opportunity to review those facts, and comment if necessary. This is a closed basin and this particular area is very important to the alluvial flows downstream in our basin.