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• III IIIIIIIIIIIII III • DELTA COUNTY, COLORADO BRADLEY K. KOLMAN, COUNTY ATTORNEY 501 PALMER STREET -SUITE 105 - DELTA -COLORADO - 61416-1764 PHONE: (970) 674-2090 FAX: (670) 674.2114 RECEIVED dAN 16 1998 January 6, 1998 DitnslOn of Minerals & Geology Colcxado Department of Natural Resources Division of Minerals and Geology 13113 Sherman Street, Room 215 Denver, Colorado 80203 ®~Ie9V~~ ®I"FIC~ P~~L~C ~~L~ C®PV ~~TE: 2 ~ ~~fr@IVBf~ JAN 0 7 1999 Re: Antelope Hill Gravel Pit -Permit No. M-78-172 Durango FSe!d Office Division of P"inorals & Geology Ladies and Gentlemen: By way of demonstration and an explanation of the problems that we have discovered in this case, we have enclosed a map along with a few pictures and a narrative prepared by Bruce Bertram, one of our staff people working on this issue. As Bruce indicates in his narrative, this survey was meant to provide for the daylighting effect when gravel was removed near the edge of the ridge. In general the surveyor was to survey fifty feet beyond the original edge of the ridge down the surrounding slopes. When the mining was actually performed, however, the survey had not been staked, the survey stakes were not visiUle, or the daylighting could not be performed in accordance with the surveyed lines. The consequence is that a total of less than .32 acres have been disturbed outside of the permitted boundaries. No additional disturbance will occur in these areas and in fact a portion of the disturbed area outside of the boundaries has already been reclaimed (area C and part of area B on the map). The photographs which I am sending have been numbered on the back and keyed to the,map to show the terrain in which we are working. It is easy to recognize why it is difficult to be r:xact in this type of area. Because the disturbed property outside of the boundary is so minimal, because the mining in t'slese areas has all occurred in the past, because no further disturbance is anticipated and because it would not appear to be economically feasible to seek to amend the permit in this area at the present time, it is hoped the matter can be resolved in some way without a finding of violation or the imposition of the penalty. As a practical matter, the County is looking at the possibility of squaring up the boundaries in the Antelope Hill gravel operation in the future. (See additional map attached). If this is accomplished, all of the disturbed area will be within the permit. COUNTY 7/antelope.doc