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=ROM RRHORLRND NURSERY FRX N0. 9705872832 AFiL-i~..~F=iLA1vu `'' ~ NURSERY ,2-03-0, Mr. Gregg Squire Division of Minerals and Geology Department of Natural Resources 1313 Sherman Street, Rcom 215 Denver, CO 80203 Dear Mr. Squire, Dec. 04 2001 09:17AM P2 III IIIIIIIIIIIII III On October 13, 2001, I had written you a letter stating my wncems overthe proposed Milliken Resource Aggregate Mine which Is planned for development immediately across Colorado Highway 80 from my property. Subsequent to that letter f have had a number of wnespondences with Ms Donna Ortiz from Rotary Mountain Consultants, Inc. who are consulting with Aggregate Industries on this project. Among my cancems were the potential to impact the water (able under my fans, noise and air pollution, traffic management, weed control and visual appearence. BY the representations made by Ms Ortiz in her letters of October 23, 2001, and November 14, 2001, and also several telephone conversations, I feel confident that the issues of noise control, air pollution eentrol, traffic managemenk weed control and visual appearance have all been resolved. I understand that you have been given espies of these two letters so that your office is familiar with the details of these concerns. However, the issue of what impact the slung wall will have upon the water table beneath my farm is still e problem that has me very concerned. I very much welcome the stipulation that a subsurface drain be installed prior to the construction of the slurry wall, I also feel that it will be a very wise move to install monitoring piezometers along Hwy 80 as was originally proposed. Perhaps another piezometer within the vicinity of my irtigation well would also be a good idea The monitors should be in place In advance of any mining activity so that historic values might be gathered for comparison and interpretation in the light aF any changes that might occur after the slurry wall is constructed. Because the water table is already near the surtaee (about 3 feet in my lower fields) my lower fields are already in a sensitive position relative to the addition of more avatar from an elevated water table. If the ground water table would be elevated to any degree, there certainly will be damage M the tree crop that I have been producing there. This damage will come from not ony the direct presence of the water, but also from the accumulation of salts that will result from the failure to perwlete the dissolved salts in a saturated soil out of the root zone. ~[ ~l'IACC CTATG L„r LJ,~,wv .n •~,~ i ni~~• ~.... ~...... r. .n... [/ .a.~S.~