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02/28/1994 13 25 FROM US EPR - R8 WTR MGT DIU TO 98328106 P.05 <br />• ~~ r • <br />This plant will also endanger human health and wildlife habitat, pollute <br />the air, the ground and the water, destroy the peace through noise <br />pollution and increased truck traffic, reduce the value of surrounding <br />property, destroy the future agricultural potential of that parcel of <br />ground, and create an eyesore at the side of Hwy. 550. <br />This isn't an issue burdening only those of us who live near the proposed <br />plant. All of Montrose County and Ouray County will be affected. The <br />natural beauty of this valley has long been promoted to tourists, but what <br />tourist will want fo stay here wf<en he or she sees, smeTlfi, hears <br />industrial plants in the middle of the green pastures? <br />An asphalt plant belongs in an industrial area. Sure there's no pollution <br />here, they say, so our small amount wont do much harm. Sut many of us <br />whose health depends on the clean air will indeed be put in danger. We the <br />residents DO NOT WANT pollution of any sort here -- not particulates, dust, <br />oil, smoke or noise pollution. <br />And in a time when population growth is threatening the world food supply, <br />it is extremely important that we protect farm and ranch lands from <br />development, especially from industrial development. When the land is <br />destroyed, there will be no place to grow the grains, vegetables, fruits, <br />livestock necessary for human survival. <br />IInfted Companies claim they will restore this parcel of land under the <br />reclamation laws. But their proposal is to leave a 37-acre pit with 45- <br />degree walls -- that IS NOT ground that will be good farm land, even if <br />they put a few feet of topsoil over it. This isn't restoration. It is a <br />vast scar. We cannot stress this enough. <br />Nor can we stress enough how much we DO NOT WANT this asphalt company in <br />our neighborhood. please grant us a healthy solution to this situation. <br />Please DO NOT allow United Companies to mine in .our neighborhood. Thank <br />you. <br />Sincerely, <br />~~ <br />M.Joyce Martin, Director <br />., • . . <br />:-~~ <br />4;;r: <br />:~ •~. <br />": mac' ~. i, . ••.:. <br />