GENERAL47213

• Permit No: C1981029
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 4/13/1994
• From: MLRB
• To: JOHN
• Permit Index Doc Type: GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

TO DFBTROY A COAL HAUL ROAD
You must hire the best people. The people at the Colorado Mined Land Recla-
mation Division, a highly skilled group of "underlinks" in the Department of Natural
Resources, State of Colorado. These specialists knox how to "decommission" a road!
Then give them a Court Order: leave the road "as is" except work necessary to
solve drainage problems! They must, of course, leave the road in condition for in-
dustrial use. The department people already know about killing cattle, wildlife
and the injury to humans that occurred well axay from the road, in eroded trenches.
Mr. Fred Banta of the CMLRD can verify this.
Instruct the specialists to disregard all engineers plans, objections by the
land-owner or the Coal Co. xho will use the road after they have destroyed it. Add
confusion. Transfer or fire personnel xho indicate sympathy or attempt to change
plans. Be sure specialists understand that they must add confusion! Delay reports
for 9 months, don't bother to assure that the road is useable year round, cut short
all meetings xith land-owners, but let attorneys talk for hours, express sympathy
for landowners' "concerns" but do nothing! Kill his cattle and xildlife! Lose
maps, photos, letters, etc. Write that erosion is caused by rodents (CMIRD Susan
McCannon).
Next, proceed to destroy the road; Snstruct the Coal Co. to rip up half the
road and place it on top of the undisturbed half. Make sure that the subgrade rock
and dirt are mixed xell so the road is impassable xhen wet. They should then pro-
ceed xith their latest "technological" plan (failed 50 years ago in Ohio) by forcing
the Coal Co. to install ditches 1' deep and 15' xide every 150' at various angles
completely across the 30' to 60' wide road. Remove croxn. First experiment on a
ranch ar on the street in Hayden in front of the park. Do not try the street in
front of the Capitol in Denver!
Next, remove some of the berms and place top soil 6" deep, 5'-15' xide on the
outer edge of the road to Insure that the water runs down the road to supposedly
exit at each ditch. Water must not drain off to the side along this road as is
done on other roads! This will limit vegetation growth, (called grass by ranchers),
encourage sage brush growth to trap snow to ensure that it cannot be removed. Be
positive; do not allox land owner to fill ditches so as to facilitate snox removal.
(The Coal Co. may do so, hoxever.) Testify in court to jail the land owner!
Specialists must explain to all heavy equipment operators hox to proceed so as
not to fill ditches xith gravel or snow. Txo and one-half miles can be done in a
xeek! bcplain how to avoid damage to equipment xhen attempting travel over the 1'
deep, 15' wide ditches. They must explain to truck drivers hox, because of 2"-3"
diameter round rocks, they can drive on the road xithout breaking up the truck or
losing it going doxn the 5-~,$ grade. Refer to street in front of Capitol building!
Allow grazing on all so-called reclaimed areas, state that all slide areas have
been stabilized even though they have not. Disregard damaged culverts, allox the
Coal Co. to leave many areas un-reclaimed, leave large boulders and then force the
land-owner to take the road after only 4 dears has elapsed. The road is nox a mess
and impossible to maintain during the ~ months of xinter. Rebuild cost $750,000.
This, my friends, was done in Northwest Colorado (Western Slope--Denver's
Front Yard,) by some people in Dirty Denver. They have violated the Federal and
State "Takings Lax". Should any organization or person wish to comment, please feel
free to write or call:
COAL VIEW GHOST RANCH 565 Sandrock Drive Craig, CO 81625 [phone]
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