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cemetery from a northerly flow to a new drainage pattern to the south and west, especially along the south and west sides. In a report Mr. Doak issued 'Apr. 18, 2005, he wrote, "Regardless o~the new slope of the reclamation area, an increase of erosion will occur especially on the south side, which could erode into the cemetery possibly exposing shallow graves." Pictures of the dramatic removal of this overburden, and the resulting mounds at the southern boundary of the Castillo Pit are attached to this complaint as Attachments E and F. CEMETERY BOUNDARIES DISREGARDED BY COUNTY VEHICLES .,. , n a showing'in a complete disregard for the Penitente Cemetery, within the past Itwo months one of the single-strand barb wire fences has been pulled to the ground, where county vehicles have driven directly across the face of the cemetery, from the southeasternmost quadrant, north and west to another fence line, where the northernmost fence has been cut, and the vehicles have. started to wear another road down an'embankment to a dirt-county road to the west. While neither Mr. Espinoza nor I have observed the vehicles driving across the cemetery, it is highly unlikely that a private passenger car or truck could negotiate the steep embankment to the north and:west, and the tire tracks left in the cemetery are obviously from large ' wheels with pronounced, off-road type'ridges in the tires. Please see Attachments G,HandI. Of particular concern in the immediate vacancy of these tine ruts, is that it is likely that the vehicles have driven directly across varies grave sites. Please note that the graves are not marked with elaborate headstones; in fact, there are some graves that only a person with particular expertise in archaeology and/or geology would recognize. Mr. Doak, the geologist; made the following observation in the Page 7 of ' I 1