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~~ April 12, 1999 Ron and Marie Tipping 1967 Broadway Grand Junction, CO 81503 Richard and Betsey Frazier 1959 Highway 92 Delta, CO 81416 Dear Ron and Marie and Richard and Betsey: There are presently 13 residences in the new Grmnison River Homeowners Group. This is the group of people that will be most impacted by your new Delta Paving Gravel Pit. Although these 13 homes are located on the edge of the north rim of the Gunnison River and peer directly down into your smokestacks, it is believed the homeowners group may grow to include as many as 24 households in the general vicinity of I-50 Road, the southern edge of Orchard City. For the record, you are not introducing new residences into this existing agricultural residential neighborhood. You are not introducing higher levels of agri-business. You are not even introducing a simple commercial use. When the oil tankers arrive and black pungent asphalt oils aze mixed with your sand & gravel and an inferno of heat is applied -when that happens you are clearly introducing an industrial use to a residential neighborhood. In maximizing your property rights you do not have permission to borrow our property rights, or any portion thereof, not even for 10 to 15 years. Over the ensuing years, we will be monitoring the noises and emissions you generate and the particulates you disseminate into the air. They will be meticulously logged against baseline levels of sound and air quality taken prior to your arrival. At pazagraph 3 on page 5 of your State of Colorado Reclamation Permit Application, you have acknowledged by your initials your understanding of the warning: "Lf your mining and reclamation operations affect areas beyond the boundaries of an approved permit boundary, substantial civil penalties to you as permittee can result." It would be nice if another Olathe Louisiana-Pacific situation could be avoided, where the company was found guilty of violating the rights of the neighboring homeowners, resulting in multi-million dollar fines against the company. We certainly would be happy to work with you if you care to mitigate this project. Obviously, the ball is in your court in that regard. I am enclosing ten 8x 12 photographs taken from our homes with a normal camera lens. As you can see, your riverside ponds are unbelievably close --- as is the haulage road in front of the Young residence. We anticipate that when you sink the excavator into the proposed river-side ponds --- only 200 to 300 feet from some of our homes --- and crank up the front-end loaders and the 800 gallon per minute dewatering pump, that it will sound as if you are literally working in our living rooms.