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• ^~I ^unnnun/II GT°T~ F COLUl9~Uy DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY III IIIIIIIIIIIII III ' Depanmem of Natural Resources 9/9/9 d~ ~~ 131 S Sherman 51.. Room ?I S ~/ t', ~o[~-~- ~p ~^ !I , Tesu1 f Denver, Culorado q0?OJ ~ `,I~ _/` ~aP /~~e ~~aG/-fp,z; ~Ba1 II~~~~ Phnne' 1303) A66-3567 T ~~~~ FA%:13031 932-8106 DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES March 10, 1998 aoY Romer Governor dames 5. Lochhe~rf William T. Cohan Etecutlve Dncaor Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board M~<naei s Ennp P.O. Box 2226 D~~~,~o~ Dnecwr Grand Junction, CO 81502 Re: Background Agile Stone Systems, Parkdale Project, File No. M-97-054 Dear Mr. Cohan: On July 8, 1997, the Division received an application from Agile Stone Systems, Inc. for a regular (112) reclamation permit for their proposed Parkdale Project. The proposed permit area is located about 10 miles west of Canon City in the area of the confluence of the Arkansas River and Tallahassee Creek, which in itself drains a very large area but normally flows little water or runs dry though most of the permit azea. The creek has potential to flow large volumes of water during intense storm events. The creek splits the mining operation. The applicant proposes 54.8 acres of gravel extraction between the creek and the Arkansas River, which is within 150 feet of the south permit boundary. Agile Stone Systems also proposes to quarry granite from a mountain side on the opposite side of Tallahassee Creek from the gravel operation. The granite quarry is proposed to be 64.3 acres in size. A small 3 acre sandstone quarry is proposed for this same side of the Creek. Agile Stone recently purchased the ranch with the mineral rights that contain the permit area. Agile proposes to haul most of the mined rock by rail and proposes to build a mine rail system that will connect to the adjacent railroad operated currently by Union Pacific Railroad. Two bridges will convey a road to the sandstone quarry and a railroad spur to the granite quarry. Except for the bridge approaches and footings all operations are proposed to be located essentially outside the 100 year flood plain for the river and the creek. The Division completed a site pre-operation inspection on August 15. 1997 and pointed out numerous potential deficiencies to the operators: CEO, Bill Fehr, and President, Mitch Albert. September 9, 1997, after completing office review of the application the Division sent a lengthy adequacy letter to the applicant.