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Page 3 • • <br />Much of this road is periodically used by timber trucks for hauling trees from an area under lease <br />by the Colorado State Forest Service as well as rock haulage by High Plains Stone Company. <br />Please note that most of the roadway was not placed in the permit area as it <br />is not a road that is exclusively used for access to the quarry. It should be noted that although the <br />lease provides access to the quarry along this roadway, only those areas in the vicinity of the <br />quarry were leased. Although we cannot speak for the State Board of Land Commissioners, it can <br />be assumed that the lease did not include the entire roadway to Highway 115, in part, because it <br />was not desired that the entire road be included in the permit. <br />This road is also the roadway used for access to BLM property, leased land <br />by the Colorado State Forest Service, and by the moss rock collector, High Plains Stone <br />Company. Previously, the Colorado Division of Wildlife leased over 11,000 acres on Table <br />Mountain. In the fall and winter this road has been used by hunters who hunt in the area leased <br />by the Division of Wildlife. It is our understanding that this has been terminated, so public use for <br />hunting will probably not occur in the future. The Division of Wildlife removed from their lease <br />land along Highway 115 because of all the problems with people using the Table Mountain area <br />for purposes other than hunting. <br />Furthermore, the entire road, all the way to the quarry, will remain after <br />the mining and reclamation is finished. Only those portions within the quarry will be reclaimed. <br />It seems to us that this road does not fall under the definition of affected land. Improvement of the <br />surface is simply a benefit to the other users of this roadway and is not just for the benefit of <br />Castle Concrete. In our opinion, simply grading and placing base on top of portions of the <br />existing roadway does not constitute a substantial upgrading of the roadway as described in the <br />definition of Affected Land. <br />Reclamation Plan - <br />Concern A: Slope of gentle outlet from mined area in Phase 1. <br />Response: The plan states that this outlet area (south end of the mining area) will <br />be gently sloped. Although it is hard to tell for sure what that slope will be, the intent is to create <br />a nearly level outlet so after reclamation, the drainage leaves the quarry at a low velocity. As <br />shown on the map, depending on where the measurement is taken, the slope will be somewhere <br />between 25:1 and 100:1. We suggest, for calculation purposes, you use either a 50:1 or 70:1 slope. <br />That seems to be about the most common and most likely slope based on the anticipated final <br />contours. <br />Concern B: Springs, spring productions, water sources, and potential effects. <br />Concern B.1.: Production rate. <br />Response: This spring was investigated in the fall of 1998. At that time <br />both Castle Concrete and Bishop Brogden Associates examined the spring and agreed that <br />production was about 4 to 7 gpm. No actual measurements were taken. It was also concluded that <br />based upon the pipe sizes feeding the spring and providing an outlet to the wetland, a 25 gpm <br />production might no[ even be possible or, if it did occur, would probably create an overflow of <br />the facility. No overflows appear to have occurred. <br />