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410 411 A City of Louisville Louisville, Colorado October 19, 1973 Mr. Jason $roulllette Operational Planner 'Mulder County Planning Department P.O. Box 471 Boulder, Colorado 80302 RE: Docket ISU-73-9: Urban Waste Resources, Inc; Proposed Gravel Mining end Sanitary Landfill Operation Dear Sir: As you know the Coal Croak Water and Sanitation Association is an organization made up of the municipalities of Erie, Lafayette, Louisville, and Superior. The purpose of the Coal Creek Water and Sanitation Association is to determine a comprehensive water acquisition, development and treatment program for these basin municipalities. Currently the Association is working with the State of Colorado on a feasibility study for the proposed Coal Creek Dam and Reservoir. This proposed reservoir is located in Section 26, Township 1 South, Range 70 West. The high water line on this reservoir will be approximately 1,000 feat from the lendf111 operation that Is proposed by Urban Waste Resources, Inc. This reservoir has a conditional decree dated 1971 from the Division 1 Water Court. This decree Is held In trust for the towns of Erie, Lafayette, Louis- ville, and Superior by the Coal Creak Water and Sanitation Association. Recently the Water Conservation Board completed Phase 1 of the feasibility study for this proposed dam. Currently the muunicipalities and the Stets of Colorado are negotiating pay back procedures that these towns will have to follow before the Stets of Colorado builds the dam for that. In addition, the towns of Louisville and Lafayette have Initiated definite plan engineering for the location of a filter plant that will treat the water from this proposed reservoir. The mein site being considered for this treat- ment plant is located in the South one-half of Section 23, Township 1 South, Range 70 West, In the same vicinity as the proposed Urban Waste Resources, Inc. mining and landfill operations. Therefore, as you can see there is considerable concern by the Basin municipalities with respect to the effect this mining and landfill operation will have on their plans for construction of a dam and filter plant complex. The main concerns of the Coal Creek Water and Sanitation Association with respect to this whining and landfill operation are as follows: I . The possibility of contaminated ground water flowing into either Marshall Lake or the proposed Coal Creek Reservoir.