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HomeMy WebLinkAbout891591.tiff = - • Q (`/, STATE OF COLORADO COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AIR POLLUTION CONTROL DIVISION ti/A �.LI TELEPHONE: (303) 331-8511 -/076- EMISSION PE ' .`• I . PERMIT NO: 89WE068F NIrTrIROVkil�►]1� ' DATE ISSUED: December 5, 1989 FINAL APPROVAL• ❑ ISSUED TO: ANDESITE ROCK COMPANY THE SOURCE TO WHICH THIS PERMIT APPLIES IS DESCRIBED AND LOCATED AS FOLLOWS: Sand and gravel mining located at Weld County Road 124 and 15 near Carr in [field County, Colorado. • THE SPECIFIC EQUIPMENT OR ACTIVITY SUBJECT TO THIS PERMIT INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING: ' Sand and gravel mining activities to include extraction, stockpiling, transport up to 500,000 ton/year gravel. P 'accessing a ' __alvelii.e. crushin ind!mscreeni-rgwv ie1Je covered by separa e - it. THIS PERMIT IS GRANTED SUBJECT TO ALL RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE COLORADO AIR QUALITY CONTROL COMMISSION AND THE COLORADO AIR QUALITY CONTROL ACT C.R.S. (25-7-101 et seq) , TO THOSE GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH ON THE REVERSE SIDE OF THIS DOCUMENT AND THE FOLLOWING SPECIFIC TERMS AND CONDITIONS: 1. The fugitive particulate emission control measures listed on the attached page (as proposed in the Fugitive Particulate Emission Control Plan submitted to the Division) shall be applied to the fugitive particulate emission producing sources as required by Regulation No.1. . . ,continued 2220/118/1 ' • Si 1591 C • ANDESITE ROCK CO.Q'IPANY Emission Permit No. 89WE068F Initial Approval Page 2. 2. The Divisi'on's approval of the proposed control plan is based on the submitted production level as listed below. Prior to any increase in daily or annual production rates, the applicant shall submit a Revised Air Pollution Emission Notice and Control Plan which will be subject to Division review and approval to ensure compliance with the National • Ambient Air Quality Standards for particulate matter. Annual records of the actual production rate shall be maintained by the applicant and made available to the Division for inspection upon request. Production of gravel shall not exceed 1600 tons/day or 500,000 tons/year. By: By. y,`" eu--i Re iew Engineer James S. Geier, P.E., Chief Fun Plog, P.E. New Source Review Section Stationary Sources Program Air Pollution Control Division P-89/de p ANDESITE ROCK COMPANY Emission Permit No. 89WE068F Initial Approval FUGITIVE PARTICULATE EMISSIONS CONTROL PLAN THE FOLLOWING FUGITIVE PARTICULATE EMISSIONS CONTROL MEASURES SKILL BE USED FOR ENFORCEMENT PURPOSES ON THE SOURCES COVERED BY THIS PERMIT, AS REQUIRED BY T71E AIR QUALITY CONTROL CCPJMISSION REGULATION NO. 1. This source is subject to 20% opacity on site and no off property transport of fugitive emission guidelines of Regulation No. 1 Sec.III D. The following control plan is designed to limit emissions to comply with regulation requirements. Should the specified control plan prove to be inadequate to meet the required fugitive emission limitations the permittee shall submit a revised control plan within 15 working days from receipt of the notice of non-compliance. 1. Fugitive emissions from overburden removal and stockpiling shall be controlled by water spray. 2. Fugitive emissions from excavationg, loading and stockpiling gravel shall be controlled by water spray to maintain a moisture content of 6% or greater. 3. Fugitive emissions from convey or transfer points shall be controlled by water spray sufficient to maintain conveyed material moisture content at 8% or greater. 4. Fugitive emissions from loading finished product into transport vehicles shall be controlled by water spray to maintain a surface moisture content of 6% or greater. 5. Surfaces left undisturbed for 6 months or more shall be revegetated and /or watered regularly. 6. Processed gravel will be loaded into cars and hauled offsite by rail. _ .: p O • • SABEY, EPSTEIN, ORDELHEIDE & SMITH, P.G. 1700 BROADWAY MELVIN B.SABEY SUITE 2200 OF COUNSEL SUSAN L.EPSTEIN DENVER, COLORADO 80290 RICK BUDD KRIS ORDELHEIDE / DEBORAH E.SMITH TELEPHONE: (303)8399600 BENJAMIN SPITZER MARK L.SABEY M.THEODORE HACKNEY FAX: (303)839.6204 December 4, 1989 Rick Everist L.G. Everist, Inc. 1746 Cole Boulevard Building 21, Suite 225 Golden, Colorado 80401 Re: 88CV170 Dear Rick: The Judge has signed off on the Ruling, Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, Judgment and Decree entered by the Referee. A copy of the Decree is enclosed for your records. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. Sincerely, • SABEY, EPSTEIN, ORDELHEIDE & SMITH, P.C. Peg Fo Legalsistant to Melvin B. Sabey PLF/cn Enc. cc (w/enc. ) : Dwight Kimsey Q ( O • DISTRICT COURT, WATER DIVISION NO. 1, COLORADO_ Case No. 88CW170 � S-r?; " V : 47 RULING, FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAw,_ JUDGMENT AND DECREE • IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF A PLAN FOR rap.:_, AUGMENTATION INCLUDING APPLICATION FOR CONDITIONAL WATER RIGHT AND STORAGE RIGHT IN WELD COUNTY, COLORADO 't - _ • • THIS CLAIM was filed with the Water Clerk of Water Division No. 1 on September 30, 1988. • All matters contained in the Application having been reviewed, and upon a finding of good cause shown, the Court hereby enters-the following Ruling, Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, Judgment and Decree. FINDINGS OF FACT 1. -Name. Address and Telenhone.Number of Aonlicant: L. G. Everist, Inc. • 1746 Cole Blvd. Building 21, Suite 225 Golden, CO 80401, (303) 279-7678 -- • 2. Statements of Opposition: Timely..and adequate notice of these .proceedings has been given in accordance with applicable law. A timely Statement of Opposition to the Application was filed, in response thereto, by the State Engineer and Division Engineer through the office of the Attorney General. The State Engineer and Division Engineer have consented to the entry of this Decree. The time for filing of additional Statements of Opposition herein has • expired. Subsequent to the expiration of time for filing, a Motion to Intervene and Statement of Opposition was filed by Lazy D. Grazing Association, Arvid R. DePorter, and Dan Tracy. Intervention has been allowed and these parties have also consented to the entry of this Decree. 3. The land and water rights involved herein are not included within the boundaries of any designated ground water basin. • L. G: !verist, Inc. (� 88CW170 4. Description of Plan for Augmentation: a. Name of structure to be augmented: Everist Well • Under the Plan for Augmentation, the Everist Well will divert water under a junior priority and will serve as an alternate point of diversion for the Lone Tree Poultry Right ("Poultry Right") . b. Previous decree for water right to be used for augmentation: Lone Tree Poultry Right. • A. Date entered: 1/15/1914 B. Case No. : 2142 . C. Court: District Court, In the County of Weld, State of Colorado D. Type of water right: Surface in the E. Legal description of point of diversion: A point • SE 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 26, Township 11 North, Range 67 West whence the center of Section 26 bears North 48 degrees West 350 feet. F. Source: Lone Tree Creek G. Amount: 0.39 cfs H. Appropriation: 1/1/1907 I. Decreed use: Irrigation. The decree does not specify a total acreage to be irrigated. c. Historic Use: The Poultry Right has been used to irrigate corn and alfalfa on approximately 26 acres located adjacent to Lone Tree Creek. See, Exhibit A, attached hereto. The historic diversion season of the Poultry Right . has been approximately 120 days (mid-May through mid-September) . Past irrigation practices included both flood irrigation and sprinkler irrigation. Historic consumptive use of water for irrigation was - approximately 29 acre feet per year, i.e. , :13 cfs during the irrigation season. d. Statement of -plan for augmentation: Applicant is planning to establish a gravel mining operation ! ' • near Carr, Colorado. See Exhibit B, attached hereto. Water for' • • the gravel operation will be pumped from two impervious storage ponds, each having a capacity of approximately 10 acre-feet. The water will be used for dust control and gravel washing. Most of the water from the gravel washing plant will be recycled to the storage ponds and' will not be consumptively used. Neither the storage ponds nor the mine pit will intercept the water table. The bottom of the pit and the ponds will be 15 to 18 feet above the elevation of Lone Tree Creek. Therefore, there will be no inflow of groundwater or water from the Creek to the mine pit or storage ponds. 2 Q Q S C, inc. 88CW170 i .f The storage ponds will be filled with water pumped from a new junior well, the Everist Well, which will intercept water by means of an infiltration gallery in the alluvium of Lone Tree Creek at a point approximately 1800 feet downstream from the location of the current point of diversion for the Poultry Right.. There are no intervening water rights between the current point of diversion for the Poultry Right and the proposed location of the Everist Well. An application for a well permit for the Everist Well was filed on September 29, 1988. The Applicant will pump under its junior priority at times when there is no senior call on Lone Tree Creek. • Although Lone Tree Creek is a tributary of the South Platte River, discontinuance of diversions on Lone Tree Creek at or above Giffin Reservoirs does not cause water to become available to senior • priorities on the South Platte River at the time and place of their need. Therefore, Lone Tree Creek is administered on a futile call ' basis at and above Giffin Reservoirs during times of a senior call from lower Lone Tree Creek or the South Platte River. The Everist Well will be an alternate point of diversion for the Poultry Right and will pump under that priority during the historic irrigation season. There are no downstream water rights which can place a senior call on the Poultry Right. When the Everist Well is in priority, under either its junior decree or the Poultry Right, water diverted thereby will be stored in the. storage ponds for later use when pumping from the Everist Well would be out of priority. When the Everist Well water right and the Poultry Right are both out of priority, the gravel operation will use water from the storage ponds. • In the event ' that it is necessary or advantageous to pump out-of-priority water from the Everist Well to fill one pond, depletions to Lone Tree Creek will be immediately replaced by an equal amount of water released from the other storage pond. The annual consumptive use for the gravel operation will be approximately 20-acre:feet. Annual water losses will be 5.5 acre- feet from storage pond evaporation, 7.4 acre-feet from gravel washing and 7.4 acre-feet from dust control operations. The consumptive use of thegravel' operation is significantly less than the 29 acre-feet historic consumptive use of the Poultry Right. The entire area historically irrigated by the Poultry Right is located within ' the area to be mined. It will be permanently removed from irrigation. After mining occurs, overburden will be • replaced and dryland revegetation will occur without irrigation. 5. The Court hereby finds that the 26 acres of land depicted on Exhibit A hereto have historically been irrigated under the Poultry Right and that the average historic consumptive use associated with the exercise of said right is 29 acre-feet per year. 3 r. 88CW170 6. Applicant will permanently remove from irrigation the re! land historically irrigated under the Poultry Right and divert the 29 acre feet of consumptive use associated therewith under the Plan for Augmentation described above. 7. The diversions of water from Lone Tree Creek through the i Everist Well will have an instantaneous impact on Lone Tree Creek and such diversions will be administered in accordance with that fact. 8. The Court hereby finds that the Plan for Augmentation : described in paragraph 4 above will compensate other water users for any alterations in the stream regimen associated with the Plan for Augmentation against which they are entitled to protection, and that the requested changes will not injuriously affect the owners tof or persons entitled to use water under vested water rights or decreed conditional water rights. The Court also finds that the junior Conditional Water Right and the Water Storage Right described and decreed below will not injuriously affect the owners of or persons entitled to use water under vested water rights or decreed conditional water rights. • CONCLUSIONS OF LAW 9. Timely and adequate notice of the Application was published as required by statute, and this Court has jurisdiction over the subject matter of this proceeding and over all parties affected hereby, whether or not they have appeared. 1O. The Plan for Augmentation described in paragraph 4 above, under the conditions set forth in paragraph 16 below, will not injuriously affect the owners of or persons entitled to use water under any vested water rights or decreed conditional water rights. Exercise of the Conditional Water Right and the Water Storage Right described and decreed below will not injuriously affect the owners of or persons entitled to use water under vested water rights or decreed conditional water rights. • JUDGMENT AND DECREE 11. The Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law set forth above are incorporated by reference into this Judgment and Decree. 12. Applicant is granted a conditional water right as follows: A. Point of Diversion: Everist Well will be located in Weld County in the SE 1/4 of the NW 1/4, Section 26, Township 11 North, Range 67 West, 6th P.M. , at a point 1625 feet 4 Q ;'• L. G. E. .:rist, Inc. 88CW170 vi - from the North Section line and 1875 feet from the West Section line. B. Appropriation Date: September 30, 1988, on the condition • that the -Everist Well is constructed pursuant to the permit or any extension of the permit to be issued as directed in Paragraph 13 hereof. In the event that the Everist Well is not constructed during the period of time authorized by that permit or an extension thereof, the Appropriation Date shall be the date of the Well Permit Application for the permit which is issued and utilized for the construction of the Everist Well. C. Amount: 1.25 cfs. CONDITIONAL D. Source of the Water: Alluvium of Lone Tree Creek. • E. prono'sed -Use: Industrial use,. including storage, • primarily for dust control and gravel washing. 13. The State Engineer 'is hereby ordered to issue a well permit for the Everist Well under the Application filed by L.G. Everist on September 30, 1988. • 14. Applicant is granted a conditional water storage right as follows: A. - . Location: Water will be stored in two off-stream storage • ponds to be designed and constructed at the gravel operation site in the NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 35, Township 11 North, Range 67 West, 6th P.M. , as shown on Exhibit, C, attached hereto. B. Appropriation Date: September 30, 1988. • C. Amount C.l.aimed: -0-. (The storage ponds will be filled by water diverted under the Everist Well water right and the Lone Tree Poultry Right) . D. Storage Capacity: Up to 20 acre-feet. CONDITIONAL • E. proposed Use: Industrial uses including dust control and gravel washing. F. Surface Area: 2.3 acres. 15. As long as applicants desire to maintain the conditional rights decreed herein they shall file with the Water Clerk an application for quadrennial finding of reasonable diligence on or before the last day of June, 1993 and every fourth calendar year 5 88CW170 t O thereafter until a determination shall have been made that such conditional water right has. become absolute by reason of completion of the appropriations. 16. The Plan for Augmentation described in paragraph 4 above is hereby approved and decreed, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in paragraph 17 of this Judgment and Decree. 17. The Plan for Augmentation described in paragraph 4 above is subject to the following terms and conditions: a. The. storage ponds for the mining operation must be filled during the period of high water and no calls to the extent possible. b. When there is a call on Lone Tree Creek by any currently perfected water right, during the period from May 15 through September 15 of each year, water may be pumped from the well to the storage ponds at a maximum rate of 35 gpm. If the well is pumped at 35 gpm for the 120 days that the Lone Tree Poultry Water Right was historically used, a total of 20 acre-feet of depletion to the system will occur. c. The Lone Tree Poultry Water Rights may not be used for any other purpose. The land historically irrigated by the right must be dried up to the satisfaction of the Water Commissioner and may not be irrigated from any other sources. d. Any pumping from the Everist Well on its own priority outside of the May 15 to September 15 period must be done only when the Everist •Well is in priority based upon the date of the well permit application .for the permit which is• issued and 'utilized for construction of the Everist Well, or when an amount equal to the amount pumped is simultaneously returned to Lone Tree Creek. Any water replaced into Lone Tree Creek shall be of a quality equal to that diverted from the Creek. e. A Parshall flume constructed-.below the Everist Well point of diversion shall be utilized to measure the flow of Lone Tree Creek. On days when the maximum, flow of Lone Tree Creek is less than .33 cfs, pumping of the Everist Well must be limited to a maximum of twelve hours per day. f. Pumping_records from the well must be maintained on a daily basis between May 15 and September 15, and a weekly basis the rest of the year. These records must be sent to the Water Commissioner and Division Engineer's Office. g. Records of the total depletions from the gravel operation from each source must be provided to the Water Commissioner each month. This includes estimated monthly 6 •'Y'. Q ( � evaporation, water used for dust control, and losses from the washing and stockpiling of gravel. h. Pursuant to C.R.S. 537-92-304(6) , the approval of the Plan for Augmentation herein shall be subject to reconsid- eration by this Court on the question of injury to the vested rights of others for a period of five years after the date water has been diverted pursuant to this Judgment and Decree. 18. A copy of this Judgment and Decree shall be filed by the Clerk with the appropriate Division Engineer and the State Engineer. • DATED AND SIGNED this 27th day of Sept., 1989. • Gl. • Raymon . Liesman Water eferee • Water Division No. 1 State of Colorado APPROVED AS TO FORM AND CONTENT: SABEY, EPSTEIN. ORDELHEIDE . • & SMITH, P.C. • By: f//��/Y/W Y^, 8. wa • Melvin B.- Sabey, #994 Mark L. Sabey, #16319 1700 Broadway, #2200 Denver, Colorado 80290 (303) 839-9600 ATTORNEYS FOR L. G. EVERIST • OFFICE OF,THERNEY GENERAL By: Peggy VeintAir,11075 First Assistant Attorney General 1525 Sherman Street, 3rd Floor Denver, Colorado 80203 (303) 866-5114 7 • 88CW170 L. G. Everist, Inc ATTORNEYS FOR STATE ENGINEER AND DIVISION ENGINEER 111iam E. Bohlender, #3325 NOV 17 lE2 1327 10th Avenue Greeley, Colorado 80631 (303) 356-6666 Sabey.Epstein.Oro:ameic e& S;iuth,P • ATTORNEY FOR LAZY D. GRAZING ASSOCIATION; ARVID R. DEPORTER and DAN TRACY • THE COURT FINDS that no protest to the Ruling of the Referee has been filed within the time permitted by Statute. • The foregoing Ruling, Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, Judgment and Decree is hereby made the Judgment and Decree of the Court. • DONE this _ day of NOV 1 6 1939 , 1989. BY THE COURT: • • • • 1 dbe A. 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