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<br />DAPHNE RIGHTER
<br />P.O, Box 2203
<br />Breckenridge, CO 80424
<br />(970)453-5981
<br />Division of Minerals and Geology
<br />1313 Sherman St, Room 215
<br />Denver, CO 80203
<br />To whom it may concern:
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<br />RECEIVED
<br />MAY 0.42
<br />Division of Minerals and Geology
<br />August 30, 2001
<br />I am writing regarding the proposal to convert an existing Construction Materials
<br />Limited Impact (I 10) Reclamation Permit to a Regular (I 12) Reclamation Permit at the
<br />Everist Materials, Mascot Placer Operations site on Tiger Rd in Breckenridge. (Section
<br />24, Township 6 South, Range 77 West, 6`" Principal Meridian)
<br />It is my understanding that afrer converting the Permit, the date of completion would be
<br />October 2015, and that Everist Materials plans to apply for a rock crushing permit. The
<br />previous owner of the said lease estimated that the number of trucks on the road would
<br />increase, as a result of the rock crushing activities, to 60 round-trips per day from 30.
<br />Over the course of a nine-hour day, 120 one-way trips averages out to around 1 truck
<br />every 4.5 minutes. The image of 1 truck meandering down a country road every 5
<br />minutes or so may not seem so bad if you don't understand what the traffic is already like
<br />on Tiger Road. As it stands now with the truck traffic generated by L.G Everist Inc, the
<br />trucks do not come at staggered times, or every ten minutes. Sometimes they come all at
<br />once, and Everist is not the only one with trucks on the road. Once I counted EIGHT
<br />trucks in five minutes. ~'
<br />Let me describe the typical usage of Tiger Road. On the road on any given day there
<br />are: Snowmobiles/ATVs, families on their bikes, Serious mountain bikers, joggers,
<br />families out for a stroll, children in battery powered miniature cars, homeowners driving
<br />to and from their homes, horses, hikers, boy scout troops, campers, dump trucks,
<br />backhoes, catering vans, tourists out for a drive, RVs, `Good Times' vans, motorcycles,
<br />wedding traffic, sleigh ride/dinner tour traffic, mothers with babies in strollers, dogs,
<br />trucks towing snowmobiles/ATVs, dirt bikes, wildlife, and school children. Add to this
<br />mix eighteen-wheelers loaded with thousands of pounds of rocks, some of which drive 50
<br />miles per hour, and you have an accurate picture of the traffic on Tiger Road.
<br />I believe that most homeowners of property on country roads expect to be able to walk
<br />down their neighborhood lane. Imagine if you will what it is like to be with your baby
<br />and your dog, on a dirt road with drainage ditches on either side making it almost
<br />impossible to get completely off the road, and two eighteen-wheelers come barreling
<br />down from opposite directions at 50 mile an hour past you. It is loud, it is dusty, and
<br />quite frankly it is terrifying. I am embarrassed to admit that it has become so unbearable
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