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f ~ • <br /> <br />Box 302 <br />U,S, Air Force Academy, <br />Colorado 80840 <br />22 October 1977 <br />iii iiiiiiiiuiii iii <br />999 <br />F~ECEIVE® <br />NOV - 81971 <br />Colorado Mined lend Reclamation Board <br />723 Centennial Building ~dINf:D LAND RECLAMATION <br />1313 Sherman Street Colo. dept. of Natural Resources <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />The undersigned citizens respectfully request the Reclamation Board <br />to schedule a public hearing in Colorado Springs during xeek-end or' evening <br />hours to consider our verbal objections to Castle Concrete's pending <br />applications to continue wining activities in our cowwunity, <br />Our protest x111 stress several pointss <br />1, Public documents filed by Castle Concretein Colorado Springs at the <br />E1 Paso County Clerk end Recorder's Office exclude reclamation plans <br />from public scrutiny. These plans are stawped "confideptial", <br />2, Castle's actions speak leader than their xords, The conpa.ny has <br />wrought almost total devastation at Snyder, Queen's Canyon, and <br />Pikariew quarries; clearly evident to the casual or trained observer, <br />3, We request the Reclamation Board to inspect this devastation and to <br />reviex reclamation activities xithin the upper txelve acres at <br />Queen's Canyon which border on total failure after many years,* <br />4, Castle Concrete should be judged on almost txo decades of diswal <br />reclamation performance, Surety should be significantly increased <br />to insure adegwte reclamation, <br />5, Mining permits should be denied until Castle submits.eerrvincing <br />evidence of successful reclamation efforts xithin a realistic <br />tiwe liwit, <br />* sees "A Repo=t on Queen's Canyon Quarry" <br />Colorado Springs Psrk x~nd >~ecreation Department <br />Design and Development Division <br />November 1, 1974 <br />_ y, .~~- <br />- ~:~~~~a:c.r.~..x_.-r_.~r..i0`c.-as~v~i.._-.~:. ':stas.sr~'fr=u. Ssh-~.LL.r.. _ ~._ .-._.~e.:.::~_. _~. .... '..Jf ~;sr~aw+~~' <br />