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~~i i~i~iii~tiii~i ~~i <br />September 19, 1979 <br />Ramsour Brothers, lnwrporated <br />2808 U.S. Highway 85 <br />Castle Rock, Colorado 80106 <br />RE: Greely pit tI77-151 <br />Empire pit !177-534 <br />Dear Mr. Rindahi: <br />before the above applications can 6e considered adequate before the <br />November 28-29, 1979 Mined Land Reciamatlon Board eeeting the following <br />information is needed. This is without the comments from the State <br />Engineer - Water Resources, and the Colorado Division of Wildlife which <br />will be sent to you as soon as it is received. Please do this as <br />quickly as possible since 1 will need time to review it. <br />For the Greely pit X77-151 <br />1) Mi <br />n in~P <br />l <br />a <br />n <br /> ~ <br />a: ~ <br />_ <br />_ <br />__ <br />Wiat amount of topsoil - in inches- will be taken off? <br /> b. What is the slope of mining? <br /> c. Do you plan to affect the cache La Poudre Rlver2 <br /> d. What is the length of time for phase one! <br /> e. What Is the life of this mine? <br />2) Reciamatbon Plan <br /> a. or your ponds Coo you plan to have a 3:1 slope from five <br /> feet above the water surface to 10 ft, ba:low4 <br /> b. What will the size of each pond be4 <br /> c. How many acres will be backfillad, graded, topsoiled <br /> and seeded? ' <br /> d. Instead of 4 inches a ^Inlmum o4 6 to 8 inches of top- <br /> soil should ba distributed over the reclaimed arsa7 <br /> e. How much water will be lost from the ponds due to evap- <br /> oration loss and do you have water rights to compensate <br /> this? <br /> f. Native trees and shrubs such as cottonwood and willow <br /> should also be planted at 5 in a bunch ZO ft. apart. <br /> g. 1 rnccanmend ~kut tali wheatgrass be added tti the seed <br /> mixture. <br /> h. How many acres wiii be reclaimed each yea r9 <br /> t. How long wiii reclamation last4 <br />