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<br />using Road, especially elderly drivers and children. Children <br />are on Road waiting for school buses startin at 6:30 in the <br />morning u til 8:25. They are getting off sch 1 buses starting <br />at 2:25 .m. until 4:00 p.m. Our present situation is an <br />accident w iting to happen. C Road is arrow and without <br />shoulders. Several hills limit views o oncoming traffic, <br />children, fa m equipment, etc. Trucks a eying 32 Road from C <br />Road are a h zard to motorists on 32 Roa which is the main <br />north-south are erial connecting the I-70 usiness Loop with US 6 <br />& 50. Visibilit of the 32 Road/C Road i tersection is extremely <br />limited for Bout bound motorists coming up the hill on 32 Road. <br />Large gravel truc s are not able to en r this intersection or <br />the 50 mph flow of traffic on 32 ad quickly. Any empty <br />southbound gravel tr cks on 32 Road th t are slowed or stopped by <br />vehicles making a le t hand turn on 1/2 Road will not be able <br />to resume normal speed up the hill. <br />Heavy truck traffic, ex vation <br />ipment, truck backup alarms, <br />erenity of this neighborhood <br />eek and on Saturday mornings. <br />6 a.m. in the morning and they <br />dictated by the operation of <br />and crushers already des oy the <br />for 12 hours a day duri the <br />Residents do not have to be p <br />object to their schedules in <br />gravel mining. <br />The acres of exposed earth i the gravel pits at any one time <br />will blow dust from these ar as. Operation of trucks and <br />machinery in the pits will r ise ust. Fine material will blow <br />out from trucks hauling mate ial f om the mine. Dust is harmful <br />to the human environment, includi g health and keeping a clean <br />house. <br />Dust is detrimental to t e production of agricultural crops, as <br />well. Almost all resi ences in the ea are involved in some <br />form of agricultural production. O chardist Ron Crist has <br />suffered tree damage and crop losses rom two gravel mining <br />operations, both the 31 Road pit and th 32 Road pit, and has <br />been unable to recov r satisfactory compe sation for his losses. <br />The Dennison Gravel Pit on East Orchard Me a caused tree damage <br />and crop losses t the Lopez Orchard adja nt to that mining <br />operation. Land outh and adjacent to t e pit area used to <br />pasture sheep prow d to be unsuitable grass f r grazing. <br />The Soil Conser ation Service has stated that gravel mines in <br />areas similar t this that overlay Mancos shal have never been <br />successfully re aimed for agriculture. The pr osed four feet <br />of crushed terial and overburden/topsoil s minimal for <br />preventing sa t permeation of the upper soil laye s. The Soil <br />Conservation Service designates the areas in quest'ons as PRIME <br />AGRICULTURAL AND. <br />With approx mately 70 gravel pits in Mesa County, an gravel is <br />known to e a common resource throughout the Grand lley, why <br />should s h an environmentally negative impact be forc d upon a <br />rural, ag icultural and residential area such as ours? <br />2 <br />