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VOLUME 103. NUMBER l7 <br />,V~ <br />.INFORMING THE DOLORES RIVER VALLEY AND MONTEZUMA COUNTY SINCE 1897 <br />CFAR hosts slide show on gravel pits <br />Ciuuns in the Dolores Rivu Yalley hav< cotssislenlly <br />pmtutcd the gravel mining n(saations of she line Camp <br />Cmvel Pu, citing dusk noise, and trafl-tc hazards as Neu <br />mom toncents. Concurs Were also wised at a nteeling <br />torn Tuesday nigh) about the mercury levels m the ware <br />(see related mercury storyl. <br />CFAR (Ciuuns (or Accounwbiliry and Responsibility) <br />was organized in Otluber of 2000, (olMwing several WR <br />tic meetings with the Crwnsy Commissioners wnceming <br />the proposed Pit. CFAR spaaored a talk and slide show <br />on Tuesday evening, duly 17. An audience of ahrwt 70 <br />were in atlendarta, including Sure Rep. Kay Alexander, <br />aM two of the Canntissionas Kelly Wilson and Gene <br />Slaty. <br />Aaording m Pat Kantor o(CFAR, Osey have done a Iq <br />of research, and teamed a lo[ about potential dangers of <br />mining in the tloMpiain of the Dolores Rrver and the d~- <br />cirncies in laws and monitrrring. "We have shared our <br />in(onnation with the Govcmor, Federal, Stare, and <br />County legislators and sure agencies- We have informed <br />our (tlMw cuiuns through our open meetings, the coolie, <br />and informational materia{ in bode she Dokres and Cortez <br />libraries. We art all teaming tngeshu and that is whorl Nis <br />meting is atxart," said Kantor. <br />According to Kantor, Gov. Bill Owena; Greg Wakhu, <br />Director of the Colorado Dep. of Natural Resswrues, and <br />U.S. Senator Wayne Allard have all requested infossrsa~ <br />unn. Stare Rcp. Mark Larson, she said, had aLsn cnnrazt- <br />ed them several times and has spleen so the County <br />Cnrnmrssioners about visiting wiN reprsa'entarives fmm <br />the Sate Conscrvauon Board. She cominued Nat Sute <br />Rep. Alexander has also been working wiN Ne getup. <br />Tone Pulic, direcWr of the Western Colorado Congress, <br />presented Ne slide thew and stale updat< on issues con <br />cetrung gravel pus. He showed glides of Ne dunago m <br />Ilcndpln,nc and nverYfeds gravel pits are doing. The slide <br />showed cutbanks, dying tree, and damage to vxllands <br />and rioariui areas. <br />that, cince 1971. nvp 7,200 apphralionc <br />have Men filed wiN the Stare Mined hod R«lamation <br />Board, end chat only t8 have Mrn denied in Colorado 1{e <br />.culcd Nal n was up to Ne kx:al pntpl< to "make the <br />County Corum>stoners pee sestricuutcc no the Rravel <br />pity'. WMn asked i( he had done any msearch into whorl <br />restrictions the Mnneeznma Grunty Crmmissimen had <br />sec CFAR on Pegt J <br />m <br />A/LVlNG pPERAT/ONS HAVE Argun N !!u /,ire Camp Grovel Pit TAt optrrWOaa cot under sirir! guideGnet <br />ttlforlA by the Monleuama Covnry Comniuionera. As<tJpsand, landetaprd pond is planned when lht projerr <br />is tomplelyd. <br />