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• • iii iiiiiiiiniuiii SPARKS, DIX, ENOCH & WINSLOW, PC. ATTORNEYS AT LAW 72B S TEJON, SUITE 304 PO. BOX 1878 R KENNETH SPARK6 TMOTHf V. DIx COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO 80901 BARYON L ENOCH MARK E. WINSLOW ROBERT M. WILL6ON L. MAFTIN NU99BAUM M a y 10 , 19 8 9 RANDALL R. 9TEICHEN BRENDAL BAR1ELS FEDERAL EXPRESS Mined Land Reclamation Division and Board 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 Denver, Colorado 80203 Attn: Mr. Dan Hernandez Re: Your file no. M-77-210 Permit Application for Snyder Quarry E1 Paso County, Colorado Castle Concrete, Applicant Dear Mr. Hernandez: TELEPHONE n9~]S~OB) TELECOPIER 118~692~201T ~~ MG1Y lll~gg MINED LAND RECLAMATION DIVISION This firm represents First Federal of Maryland, Sioux Valley Savings and Loan Association, Metropolitan Federal Bank, Preferred Savings & Loan Association, Northlake Federal Savings and Loan Association, owners, as tenants in common, of a substantial portion of the Cedar Heights Subdivision, Colorado Springs, E1 Paso County, Colorado. The Cedar Heights Subdivision abuts Castle Concrete's mining land and lies south and east of that land. These owners oppose Castle Concrete's permit application dated March 2, 1989, will he affected and aggrieved if the permit is granted, and request that a Formal Hearing be held. These owners ask that the Board review the following items, as may be supplemented, which may affect and aggrieve these owners: (1) the excessive dust caused by the mine which has been and will continue to be an esthetic problem, a pollution hazard, and a health hazard for present and future residents and guests of Cedar Heights; (2) the potential, admitted harm to the natural stream which runs between the proposed additional mining area and the existing mining area; (3) the failure to provide for a natural reclamation of the area and which may not result in cover equal to the natural vegetation of the surrounding area; (4) no adequate arrangement fur topsoil replacement has been made in the reclamation plan; (5)•after the proposed reclamation, the adverse visual effects on the subdivision trill continue fur many years and the value of the subdivision property will be adversely affected; (6) the proposed method of mining the existing permit area and the new permit area may result in undesirable erosion and difficult reclamation which may nut self-regenerate; and (7) ruck spillage into non-permit areas is admittably probable. These owners reserve the right to supplement these items.