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-=. • • ~IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII <br />--; <br />Box 302 <br />U,S, Air Force Academy, <br />Colorado 80840 <br />22 October 1977 <br /> <br />rdov - a 1977 <br />Colorado Mined Iand Reclamation Board rf~p;.; ,,, <br />723 Centennial Building L~ ~-•`++L'o R, CL,Qi~+i!!!~lJi7 <br />1313 Sherman Street Culo. Depi. of 'J~Wral Peso~_rce <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />The undersigned citizens respectfully request the Reclamation Board <br />to schedule a public hearing in Colorado Springs during reek-end or evening <br />hours to consider our verbal objections to Castle Concrete's pending <br />applications to continue mining activities in our community, <br />Our protest will stress several points: <br />1, Public documents filed by Castle Concrete in Colorado Springs at the <br />E1 Paso Couttty Clerk and Recorder's Office exclude reclamation plans <br />from public scrutiny, These plans are stamped "confidential", <br />2, Castle's actions speak louder than their words, The company has <br />xrought almost total devastation at Snyder, queen's Canyon, and <br />~ikeviex quarries; clearly evident to the casual or trained observer, <br />3, We request the Reclamation Board to inspect this devastation and to <br />review 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 dismal <br />reclamation performance, Surety should be significantly increased <br />to insure adequate reclamation, <br />5, Mining permits should be denied until Castle submits convincing <br />evidence of successful reclamation efforts xithin a realistic <br />time limit, <br />* see: "A Report on Queen's Canyon Quarry" <br />Colorado Springs Park and Recreation Department ~1~ <br />Design and Development Division ~^ ~ <br />1lovember 1, 1974 r <br />