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February15, 2005 <br />Delta County Planning Dept. <br />Delta County Court House <br />501 Palmer Street <br />Delta, Co. 81416 <br />Delfe County Planning Dept <br />Date Received <br />Za 1~-/ b s~ <br />gY: (~ R - <br />Re: Benson Bros. Red Canyon rock quarry application (SD05-001) <br />Please, please, please deny this application. This would be 15 to 20 years of pure <br />horror for the residents of this canyon. <br />I am an adjoining property owner (in my late 60's) to this proposed industrial <br />development. Due to the many new residents moving here over the past 10 years, this <br />is now a residential area -not industrial. <br />The noise and dust/dirt factor alone would be detrimental to everyone's health -mine <br />especially, as I am allergic to dust/dirt which ff it gets into my lungs, it brings on attacks <br />of bronchitis/asthma. There would be a great deal of dust/dirt coming into my back yard <br />as there are wind and air currents that travel right up the little canyon into my yard. I <br />live in my back yard during the spring and summer months -entertaining with bar-b- <br />ques, parties, etc. You can imagine trying to have a function with dust/dirt swirling <br />about, much less the noise. <br />And here we get to the noise -bulldozers ripping and gouging out rock, crushing <br />noises, hydraulic hammering going on; the sound of compressors and portable <br />generators filling the air all day long. <br />Then there is the noise of dozens of trucks using fake breaks coming in and going out - <br />up and down the roads. This is a danger in itself. They are going to have to come in <br />and go out on a blind curve. How dangerous is that! We have people (including <br />children) who ride heir horses up and down the road that is proposed for all this truck <br />traffic -think of the safety of these riders. Most of us have small ranches and many of <br />us have horses (including me). I suppose you are going to say -well, don't ride your <br />horses. <br />The visual effect will be devastating to this little mountain. It will be scarred with the <br />taking of all the trees, some of which are hundreds of years old. I've seen what <br />reclamation does -and believe me - it doesn't look the same afterward. <br />;,. <br />You would be displacing deer and many other wild creatures from their natural habitat - <br />15 to 20 years of displacement. Not only would the wildlife leave this area that would be <br />mined, but the deer along with other wildlife would move completely out of this area, <br />