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F <br />and water uses (eg., drinking wells, fish life, agricultural <br />irrigation, etc.) can be checked by an agency iColorado <br />Department of Health) who will monitor without interests in the <br />production losses or pains of the mining operations. <br />We feel that a well publisi~ed, public hearing should Held in San <br />Luis. In this way local area residents will be given the <br />opportunity to contribute to the decision-malting process. A <br />process which will effect their health and environment, <br />The Etattle Mountain Gold Company must be made accountably for <br />addressing the fallowing questions: <br />1) What is the possibility of free cyanide entering the <br />environment, including the surface and groundwater systems in the <br />area? <br />~) What is the hydraulic connection between the two aquifers and <br />the kito Seco drainage system, as well as the aquifer that <br />supplies domestic water to the local area residents? <br />~.) How effectively will leap monitoring be accomplished, and by <br />whom? If leaks do actor, what type of response will occur and <br />what involvement in the process will local and state government <br />officials have? <br />4) What will be the long-term effects ^f the mining operation on <br />the environment and area residents as well as the effect ~f <br />leaving the leach piles and mine waste a.n place long after- the <br />mining operations have ceased? <br />For hundreds of years the people of The San Luis Valley halve <br />lived in harmony with the environment. We need your help in <br />preserving this relationship and protecting the finite re=_.ources <br />of the area from the abuses of short term mining operatiors that <br />will change the essential nature of animal, plant and aquatic <br />life for years to come. <br />S~ncC ely }^O~, ~~~ <br />Cr stal Brand FiN, PHN '~ <br />- ~-1 ~ - <br />r2 , <br />Donna f:och. F:N, MS, F'HN <br />