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, iii iiiiiiiiiiu iii , STATE OF COLORADO Richard D. Lamm, Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURALRESOURCES DIVISION OF WILDLIFE James B. Rueh, Director 6080 Broadway Denver, Colorado 80216 Telephone: (303) 297.1192 711 Independent Avenue Grand Junction, CO 81505 • June 19, 1985 Peter V. O'Connor Mined Land Reclamation Division 423 Centennial Building 1313 Sherman Street Denver, CO 80203 RE: Colorado Lien Rifle Quarry - M-85-038 Dear Mr. O'Connor: ~~~9~~~ ! U N 21 1985 MINED LRND RECLAMATION DIVISION The Colorado Division of Wildlife is concerned about this proposal. Since we are adjacent property owners we ask the Mined Land Reclamation Board to consider our concerns in their permit review. We feel a MLRD permit should not be issued until these concerns are resolved. They are not addressed in the current permit appli- cation. Our concerns are: 1) An active fault runs through the permit area and next to the hatchery (see map 1). This fault line was mapped by a Colorado State geologist. Tremors occurred on this fault last year a few miles east of the hatchery. We are concerned that blasting, quarrying, or overburden stockpiling could cause movement along the fault and change the hy- drology of the area and/or cause rockslides. Changes in hydrology could adversely effect hatchery operations. Rockslides could damage hatchery buildings, raceways, residences, roads, or a 36 inch above the ground pipeline. Of particular concern are some boulders on the mountainsides directly above the residences and hatchery. 2) We have a 1.5 cfs domestic use water right on a spring located adjacent to the permit area (see map 2). This spring flows year-round. Water from the spring originates from the drainage that runs through the per- mit area (also shown on map 2). In Exhibit G, Water Information, this drainage is called an intermittent stream. We disagree. While flows are underground through some of the permit area the channel above the permit area contains perennial flows. We also disagree with the assess- ment that mining activity will not effect this stream. Quarrying or movement along the fault could change the hydrology of the drainage and dry up the spring 'on which we have the water right. 3) Limestone dust could emanate from the quarry, the crusher, and the haul road. This fugitive dust could adversely effect wildlife use of the area and degrade air quality. Air quality could be degraded at the hatchery because it lies in the direction of the prevailirg winds in the area. DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, David H. GetcheS Executive Director ~ WILDLIFE COMMISSION, Timothy W. Schultz, Chairman James T. Smith, Vice Chairman ~ Richard Divelbiss, Secretary ~ Donald A Fernandez, Member ~ Rebecca L. Frank, Member Robert L. Friedenberger, Member ~ John Lay, Member ~ George VanDenBerg, Member