1979-02-28_PERMIT FILE - M1978352 (5)

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0 MC: Excuse me before we get too much further in this , my name is Mike McCarthy, and I 'm an attorney from Denver representing Nottingham Sand and Gravel , and I wonder if Mr. Kerd perhaps in error with regard to this application , there are 2 Nottingham applications pending, an existing application , and appli - cation for an existing mine, and an application for a new mine, and as I understand there is no correspondence with the Division with respect to the Avon Pit , with this particular RF: This is what I was just going to say, the haul road into the pit is shown right here and, . . RW: I though it was that in case you were interested in not the other There are 2 items of business and it was my understanding from the staff that it was the other Nottingham item that you had concern about K: Oh, well I understood that this was over near Avon, I didn' t realize that ther were two of them. RW: Yeah, on our , ok, the agenda RFL There's one near Gypsum and one near Avon. RW: Right , K: This will be the next one then RW: I think it will be, ok, is there other comment , now all those in favor of the motion raise their hand, It carries 4 to 0. Ok, so we can do the 2nd Nottingham Item 18 on the agenda. The parties here from Eagle River Trust MH: Ok, Nottingham S & G Flle NO. 78-352 , this is a new Nottingham S & G operation although it 's in an area that has been operated for sand and gravel source for many years in the past. This application is for 29 acre gravel pit located about 31 miles east of Gypsum and it' s just north of HWY. 6 and between Hwys. 6 & 24 and the pit i s the Rio Grande RR. The present land use is of very very marginal range land, mainly due to the intermittent gravel mining that several parties have protected in the past. and it ' s uh and as a result the area' s much of the area is fairely well torn up now. Uh, the mining plan the soils at the site are very thin to nonexistent and the soils map they show that well this is the affected lands area here, the soils along this southern edge here are a little bit better than the rest of the soils but it ' snot really enough. to speak of. So very little if any soil will actually be saved at the site. They will mine about 20 lineal feet , on the base there 's a base of cliff that goes along here and they' ll mine 200 feet in this direction moving back in this direction here. They would start phase 1 mining it this way or start here phase 2 and then phase 3 each one of those phases constitutes about 5 years worth of mining. They'd be mining to a depth of about 30 to 35 fee there is a ditch, you see how it runs along here, the stream gates dithc, runs along much of the northern boundary of the pit. Coming up to that ditch they won'.t mine below the level of that ditch seen in here alright in pahse 1 and phase 2 so if from the face of the gravel that would be left, on out to the ditch land would be fairly level , now when you do get into phase 3 there will producing somewhat of a basin in here with a slope coming down thru the dithc on this side and in this way it protects the integrity of the dtich along here, I guess it runs that way.