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<br />The configuration of this tract of lgnd also shows a 100 foot wide strip of <br />land parallel to the Colorado River ~ the only barrier for the River to <br />retain its existinP channel., ,This is totally inadequate. The base of this <br />strip is gravel that will be mated, Sitting loosely on the underlying <br />Mancos shales there is no staty in it. Due to the impervious nature of <br />this shales the water (river) caA~_change course at its will (volume.) which <br />it will do during the next high xa*r period. The river can not lower its <br />gradr_ in the Mancos shale in less than hundreds of years so nearby surface <br />area:3 will be altered to the detriment of nearly all nearby residents. <br />When you review this application, p],~8se look not only xhere the pit is <br />locai;ed (along a rivers but the local geology, local topography that lends <br />itself to a movement by the river to the north. Corn Construction had to <br />dynamite portions of the river bank east of 31 road to keep the river from <br />moving northward during the 1983 him-water runoff and just did hold the <br />channel in that location. It will happen again. This is not speculation <br />it is fact. <br />No new jobs nor any jobs now existing will be jeopordized if the permit <br />is denied and there is no economic crises for United Companies, The crises <br />will be for nearby land owners (with the life investments in land and residences <br />and others along 30 Road who will be subject to flooding after the Colorado <br />River makes a new channel through the proposed gravel pit, <br />Do not approve this proposed pit recl`mation permit. ILre you as reviewers <br />and the State willing to accept the finacial obligations ,your approval will <br />create the adjacent property owners? Most of us have spent our life savings <br />buyin=, our land and residences and we feel. we should not have to be the ones <br />to lo~ee everything because of in inappropriate location of a gravel pit. <br />Respe~;tfully~ <br />~` O <br />Gilbert R. Wenger <br />392 3C~ Road <br />Grand Junction, Co. 81504 <br />