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Page 2 <br />October 10, 1989 <br />Joyce Neville <br />concern over rockfalls along highways we are sure that <br />before this amendment would be started, at least four years <br />from now, more secure methods will be found to control this <br />problem, even from dozer operators who don't know west from <br />east. <br />The rock staining concept has some merit, but we have <br />recently learned that the manufacturers have basically <br />discovered they have a really good thing going for them. As <br />a result, prices have skyrocketed to about $25,000 an acre. <br />At that price, doing much staining would be "a little" <br />expensive. However, as often happens, when someone develops <br />a product for a good use and then raises the price to the <br />Moon, somebody else comes along and develops something as <br />good or better for a fraction of the price. We have several <br />years before any staining would be needed and as the demand <br />for these products is high we feel something more reasonable <br />should come along. We are even playing around a little to <br />see if we can develop some kind of stain from sphagnum moss. <br />Everything we have done so far will stain, but it also <br />washes off. We need to find some kind of safe chemical <br />binder. In short, we certainly have not canceled out on <br />staining, but Eonite staining on anything but a small scale <br />appears to be a little out of the price range of private <br />enterprises even though well within the range of gold plated <br />government funded projects. <br />With regard to the repair of the existing spill, we assure <br />you that as soon as the soil temperature declines into [he <br />safe planting range (about 40 degrees F. or less) we will be <br />seeding the slope with the designated grass mixture included <br />in our corrective action plan on file with Mined Land <br />Reclamation. With respect to the trees, we are currently <br />planning on using the Colorado State Forest Service <br />containerized seedlings, possibly in combination with a <br />local mulch mat of excelsior around the tree or the <br />incorporation of polyacrylamides into the soil medium near <br />the trees. Both of these amendments typically increase <br />survival rates by anywhere from 10 to 30 percent and <br />increase growth rates about 20 percent without the need for <br />additional irrigation. <br />We do not fully agree with landscapers that using larger <br />trees will result in faster success. In fact, our <br />experience on the Queen's Canyon Quarry and at the Snyder <br />Quarry has been the reverse. Larger trees, because they are <br />grown for many years in an environment quite foreign to <br />