GENERAL31916

• Permit No: M1981158
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 11/6/1991
• Doc Name: PN M-81-158
• From: TUTTLE APPLEGATE INC
• To: MLRD
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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TUTTLE APPLEGATE, INC.
Consultants for Land and Resource Development
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Mr. Bruce Humphries
Mined Land Reclamation Division
1313 Sherman Street, Room 215
Denver, CO 80203
RE: Permit Number #PI-8 -15 ) S~
Dear Bruce:
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NOV 0 6 1991
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Recently I was contacted by Dale Kortz, manager of the Forest Lakes
Metropolitan District:. AS you are aware, metropolitan districts
are quasi-municipal units of government authorized under the
Special District Law of the State. The Forest Lakes Metropolitan
District provides waiver, sewer, road, and recreation services to
the residents of the Forest Lakes Development in Bayfield.
This residential community was developed by Southwest Properties,
Inc. of Arizona. In 1981, Southwest Properties, Inc. permitted a
limited impact pit in order to supply aggregates to build their
roads, sewer lines, and water lines. During the 1980s, the
developer excavated materials from the pit and hauled materials to
the right-of-way owned by the Metropolitan District.
In March, 1990, the 1etropolitan District took possession of the
7.7 acres of land where the pit is located. The pit remains active
and is used as a source of roadbase to maintain the gravel roads in
the development.
We now have a situation where a unit of local government owns the
land where the pit is located, hauls this material from the pit
along road rights-of-~aay which it owns, and uses the mined material
to maintain the roads within its rights-of-way. By reviewing
Section 1.11.2(1)(a) of the Rules and Regulations, it is my opinion
that this activity dof~s not require a reclamation permit. When the
pit is exhausted the Master Plan for Forest Lakes Development calls
for this site to be a final discharge pond for treated effluent
from their sewage treatment plant.
-\GP (~ I was informed by Mr. Kortz
t\'"` under Southwest Properties,
t~ ~~ i suggest the Division Let this
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that on December 10, 1991, the bond
Inc. will expire. At that time I
permit lapse because it is no longer
11990 Grant Street., #410 Telephone: [phone]
Denver, Colorado 80233 Facsimile: [phone]