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Adams County Administration Building <br />Colorado 450 South 4th Avenue <br />Brighton, Colorado 80601 <br />(303)659.2120 <br />I <br />Bo. ~i County Commissioners <br />Commissioners: Leo M. Younger, Jr. District 7 <br />Steven E. Cramer District 2 <br />Robert A. Briggs, Jr. District 3 <br />June 15, 1982 <br />To <br />From: <br />Subject: <br />Requestiny: <br />Board of County Commissioners <br />Neil Goodenough, Planning Director <br />Case No. 64-82-C <br />Brannan Sand and <br />P. O. Box 16006 <br />Denver, Colorado <br />Gravel Company <br />80216 <br />Conditional Use to operate an asphalt <br />batch plant on a 5 acre parcel. <br />The location of this reyuest is north of the 128th Avenue <br />alignment between Brighton Road and Nome Street. As the <br />attached plat indicates, the batch plant would be located <br />LA= near the center of Brannan Pit tdo. 29, .and would use <br />L\`~ aggregate from that source. Permission to mine the property <br />was granted as part of Case No. 90-80-CP in 1980. The <br />entire pit area covers 145 acres. <br />The only agency responding with concerns in this case was <br />the Division of 47ater Resources. They indicate that opening <br />a large wet pit, such as Brannan proposed in the earlier <br />case, will require a well permit. Since water rights in the <br />South Platte Basin are overappropriated, securing such a <br />permit will require an augmentation plan. This concern is <br />actually peripheral to the case at hand, since the mining <br />and reclamation plan has already been approved. The Divi- <br />sion also indicated concerns about the asphalt plant - <br />'Brannan states the asphalt plant itself will consume no <br />water. We question the basis of this statement and would <br />need more information to accept it.' There is an unanswered <br />question about water use and the legal right to use water in <br />the asphalt production operation. <br />Staff concerns involve making the asphalt plant, which is a <br />heavy industrial use, compatible with an agricultural area. <br />It is felt that proper screening can overcome potential <br />problems. Staff is also concerned with insuring that the <br />asphalt plant use is temporary. Gravel mining along the <br />South Platte will not last many more years, and preferable <br />reuse of the corridor is for residential, recreational, <br />