HomeMy WebLinkAbout790752.tiff Mrs. E. G. Phillips
RFD
Briggsdale, CO 80611
June 25, 1979
TO THE WELD COUNTY CO MISS I,:%NERS:
There is no way that I can enjoy or use my property if
Bob Thomas does not reseed the areas surrounding my place.
Saturday we had a cyclonic flow of air proceeding a thunder
storm, common in that part of the county, for 45 minutes
the areas plowed were one giant dust cloud reaching into
the heavens . In 45 minutes the window sills and floor of
my house, recently renovated, were covered with 1/4th inch
of dirtl Everyt.ing in the house was covered. It was an
incredible mess. I cannot live with this destruction.
To add to the burden are the tractors going 24 hours a day,
seven days a week without stopping more than 20 minutes at
a time. That noise has a decibel level no human being can
tolerate . The grinding of gears is like fingernails scratching
a blackboard multiplied. At Keota the echo problem compounds
the noise so I get it twice with magnitudes and intensity
intolerable.
After a week of this, Friday night I called the p ,lice who
came out twice and stopped the tractors south of my place.
I was ready to scream and to murder to stop it. I could not
tolerate the noise any longer.
The insensitivity of Hob Thomas to those who live out there
is in itself a crime. He maintains we should of t'iought of
this and bought up the land. Does he realize people out there
have priorites exclusive of ffen Million in the bank which he
has? We love the land he has destroyed. He doesn' t live
there .
I urge the commissioners to add to the dust problem the
noise level. Around my place I will not tolerate night
tractor use, week end use, and no tractor will begin
until 8 a.m. and must cease at 4 p.m. And one tractor is
all that can be used within a 4 mile area.
My property is now surround by flowed fields to the north:
two miles of plowed area by 4 miles . And further west,
six miles by 5 miles of plowed area. To the_ st3Yzth, five
miles by 4 miles plowed area. Since the •p .evailing
westerlies operate in that area in the winter and the
prevailing southerlies in the summer I am going to be
in dust and dirt every day. The Gerald Kummers are in
the same dust bowl and are as- angr,. as I am over this
incredible act of Bob Thomas .
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