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~ • III IIIIIIIIIIIII III <br />Box 6035, West End Station <br />Colorado Springs, CO 80934 <br />April 24, 1989 <br />.0~, ~ j~. <br />Governor Roy Romer ` ~Z39 V <br />State Capitol Building ~ ~~~~~~ - . <br />Denver,Colorado 80203 <br />Dear Sir: GOVc.;,.J. ., IC.°. <br />CILE RQ.. ~---- <br />This is a plea that the Castle Concrete Company~s re_ <br />quest to the Mined Land Reclamation Board to develop a mining <br />operation in the Snyder Quarry in the near future not be al- <br />lowed, If there is any way you can assist in preventing this, <br />it would surely be appreciated by all those, like myself, who <br />find the destruction of the Front Range offensive, I deplore <br />the plan to destroy this area near Williams Canyon and the Cave <br />of the Winds twenty years from now, and allowing this to take <br />place in the next few years is intolerable, <br />Castle Concrete has not demonstrated any significant re- <br />gard for the aesthetics of the area, and has made only minimal <br />reclamation efforts in the locations it has already defaced. <br />Once removed, the natural appearance of the Front Range will <br />never be restored, so any further request to add to the destruc- <br />tion which has already occurred should be most carefully considered, <br />It is not as if this grade of limestone could not be obtained <br />elsewhere, The trucks might not be able to use the mAin highways <br />and their drivers might have to go further, but I think that <br />would be a much more ecologically sound solution than systemati- <br />cally destroying acres of natural beauty, <br />I live opposite one of Castle Concrete s operationsand I <br />have watched in dismay the clouds of dust that rise regularly <br />from their blasting, The loaded trucks turn onto the freeway <br />directly below my house and these trucks are never covered, so <br />the dust and gravel from their loads trails them as far as they go, <br />Surely with environmental protection currently being em- <br />phasized as it is, allowing this mining operation is in no way <br />desirable, and if it cannot be stopped completely, it should be <br />postponed as long as possible, I hope that you, and all others <br />with any influence in the matter, will say "Enough:" before it <br />is too late, <br />Your very truly, <br />~.W <br />(MR ) KATHERINE L, WALKER <br />