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valid 'Thee are over 100 hotues within 1 mile of the purposed mine site. My house is 500 feel from the <br />Purposed mine site. <br />Traffic will also be a serious impad ~ our environment The noise from the large gravel tmcks going <br />down the grade on Ward Creek Road will be disrupting to say the least. Nd only will ~e semi loads of <br />shale be leaving the pit, they will be returning. If we think of 25 to 30 gravel trucks, we must think of 50 to <br />60 trucks. There will also be customs haffic picking up loads of shale, water trucks and much more <br />unmentiened equipment traffic. A blind coma on Ward Credo Road just nordt of the enitmce tb die Red <br />Canyon Mine Road is a problem that must be dealt with. Ward Creels Road is a narrow winding 2-lane <br />road that the local residents use for horseback riding, walking, biking and is also a school bus route. <br />I have lived in this valley for nine years and have watched it grow into a very populated community of <br />citizens who like myself choose to live in this area because of the existing envirorunenk <br />Should the Bensons be allowed to procced with their plans, I feel drat thse will new be a day that I will <br />nd have fear that the large boulders will roll offdte 100 fad wall on to my property and buildings or drat a <br />common summa flash flood will bring down mud, rocks and debris ovs the wall and onto my properly. I <br />feel that I should have a right to live w[dtout fear of my safely. Iri ads to resolve my concern with my <br />safety, I believe that the south ridge or crest of the mountain and all areas south of drat ridge on Bensons' <br />property be designated as a no mining area. I also feel that should the Bensons not be permitted to mine the <br />ridge, it would solve the problem of scaring the top of this mountain that can be seen for miles. <br />I am requesting that the Benson Brothers psmit to open a mine m this area be denied because the purposed <br />mine is not compatible with this growing residential area <br />Thank you for listeadng to my concerns and request. <br />Jand Croissant <br />20993 Snowdrift Road <br />Cedaredge Co 81413 <br />856-3073 <br />