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ELLURIDE GRAVEL, 1 NC. I 270 Highway 625 •Telluride, CO 81435 (970) 728-3775 • Fax (970) 728-3015 SEP 0 8 2000 us Givision of Minerals and Geology September 5, 2000 Steve Shuey Division of Minerals and Geology Durango Field Office 701 Camino del Rio, Room 215 Durango, CO 81301 Dear Mr. Shuey: III IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ~`` RECEIVED This letter is intended to serve as a report for inspection report of May 25, 2000 and addres actions that were performed by Telluride Gravel. the Alexander Pit, M-1976-032. I will go through your s all issues as you identified and describe any cortective Your report indicates that our mine identification signs and permit boundary markers were in place, although a few markers appeazed to be missing. I have looked through our records and can't find the correct amount of markers or how often they are to be placed around the boundary. We work with a local sign maker wit! gladly add mare signs. I would prefer to do this at your specific direction, if possible. Your report next mentioned that any import of permanent fill must be addressed in a notice to the Division. I hope that this letter will serve as that notice. We are allowed by San Miguel County to import material to our pit and process it. This import is primarily export from some of the rockier excavations that we have throughout the year. We also import non-reinforced concrete, aged asphalt, wash-out from our concrete mixer trucks, mason debris (facing stone, bricks, etc.), and other structural type material that can be crushed. We also haul in excess stone from the airport quarry that can't be used as facing stone. These materials aze all crushed together and produce our road base products. No permanent fill is generated from this operation. Although we primarily take material only from our own customers, we allow the Town and the County to dump their aged asphalt at no charge in order to minimize then haul costs. We also haul topsoil in from any topsoil-rich sites where we are performing the earthwork. This material is then screened and the vegetative debris is hauled to the USFS's property as organic fill. We also haul in wood chips and mulch it into the 611 in order to produce material that will be more likely to re-vegetate. This is the only permanent fill going to the Pit and was a requirement of the USFS. This item is addressed later in this report. The next section of the report noticed oil cans and barrels that were not contained in either our oil containment structure or our fuel containment structure. Those barrels have been relocated and are now inside those structures. All petroleum products were removed from the steel shed on skids. The next section mentions the Canadian Thistle that seems to be springing up everywhere in the valley. We had our laborers cut down all the thistle and hauled it to the Nucla landfill. The topsoil stockpile is constantly being brought in, screened, and hauled out for landspping. It is not in the yard long enough to re-vegetate. If erosion takes place, the stortnwatcr is contained within our pit. 0 The piles of tees and stumps that were noticed near the settling pond are very temporary. We haul those to the Nucla landfill as they are generated.