PERMFILE46713

• Permit No: M1995007
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 5/16/1995
• Doc Name: FN M-95-007 THOMECZEK PIT CONDITION ATTACHED TO APPROVAL OF NEW 110 PERMIT APPLICATION
• From: DMG
• To: BENT CNTY READY MIX
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY
Depanmem of NaWral Resources
1313 Sherman 51 ,Room Z15
Denver, ColoraAo 80203
Phone: [phone]
FA%: (3031 832~810h
May 16, 1995
Mr. Joe Thomeczek
Bent County Ready Mix
P.O. Box 387
Las Animas, CO 81054
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DEPARTMENT OF
NATURAL
RESOURCES
Roy Romer
Governor
James S Luchhead
Executive Dnedor
Alichael B. Long
Re: File No. M-95-007, Thomeczek Pit, Condition Attached to Dlvlsmn Dlreclor
Approval of New 110 Permit Application.
Dear Mr. Thomeczek,
As we had discussed last week and yesterday on the phone, your new
application is able to be approved, but only with a condition.
Even without the complication that this new application presented,
there have been several important outstanding problems to address
concerning your mining operation, which you have been aware of.
These problems should have been rectified, but to-date there has
been nothing done. The approval of your new application, for
Permit No. M-95-007, will incorporate a condition, which as the
situation now stands, must be part of your new permit. That
condition is as follows:
1. The operator will not allow the new mining to encounter
groundwater, until an augmentation plan has been approved to
allow the present pond surface to be enlarged. To adequately
meet the needs of revegetation of the resulting surface to be
reclaimed as pasture, a minimum depth of two (2) feet of
material must remain above the water table.
I will summarize the reasons for the permit condition below:
Your existing permit, No. M-86-112, was approved as a dry
operation. It was acknowledged at the time of approval that there
was an existing pond in the permit area, though it was not to be
part of the new operation. The approved mining plan was for the
new pit to be separate from the pond, and remain above the water
table. The approved reclamation plan was for a post-mining land
use of pasture. This Division did not write these provisions;
they were signed by you, submitted to us this way and approved. As
you know, present site conditions do not match the plan, and I
requested (a year ago) that you modify your plan or your operation,
to bring your permit into compliance.