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SEP 14 '95 06~40PM BRLL PRCKRGIfVG COC P.3i4 <br />• • <br />Another and well founded concern is that the force of the blasts aze weakening the <br />structures around my home and well. l question whether the underground fractures of <br />where I might be getting the water to my well are receiving wn+pn+c.~+±on from the <br />coaunercial mining? As large as these blasts are they could easily modify, create or <br />change the current formation without me knowing it. I would then be drinking poison. <br />I have heard that my neighbor Linda Ballard has complained that they are knocking items <br />off of her shelves. <br />As a resident of the State of Colorado and the City of Boulder I feel that all of these <br />concerns should be eliminated completely This mining company is not from this area and <br />they have little concern with how we long term residents live and the quality of life that <br />we demand. <br />As an example: When I expressed my above stated concerns to the foreman of the <br />job h.e retorted to me - do you use a chain saw? he obviously was try to justify his using <br />dynamite and running generators to me using a chain saw. I only use chain saws a few <br />hours each year as well as my neighbors. In my view that example doesn't pull any <br />weight. <br />My phone call to the Boulder County Sheriffs department on this Thursday resulted in a <br />Deputy Brit Fel traveling to the mine site and he informed me through another deputy <br />(Patrick Gallahger} that they were blasting illegally. This is not the first time that this <br />company has been caught operating illegally. They (I believe) were cited early this spring <br />about their usage of water from a abandoned mine shaft which is located very close to the <br />current open mine. That water was used, then expelled and drained down the drainage <br />gulch located just behind my well area. The water had a white color as it was draining, <br />sort of like the color of cement. <br />What other areas are they operating in that are considered illegal grey or hapha~rd and is <br />there any agency that is assigned to watch and govern what they do. Is it up to us <br />residents to setup shop to watch over them? <br />Can tt resident of Sunshine canyon/property owner just hire some out of state commercial <br />entit)~ to come in and blast the kell out oja mountain commwlly/pollute the air in a <br />small locat/on /!ke Sunshine with diesel fwnes fiom a generator that is running jroni <br />09:Ot9 tiU 19:00 hours, blasting on Sundays at 18:00 hours with ten charges peg <br />blasting octivlty, b/astinQ wilhi~ a few meters of a schoo bus stnn on Wednesday <br />blasting within 150 feet of one rental house, blasting within 300 feet of my house and <br />my neighbors house, use vary scarce ground water and drain it away with who knows <br />what !n 11, into a drainage area that drains into North Boulder, not Inform folks us <br />writu7g when they are blasting, opera[e this mine without current legal permits, operate <br />this aline without a watch dog group, there is a camper on the site are they living in it? <br />and only God knows what else??? <br />