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<br />COLO. TECH. CENTER <br />CONT'D <br />DR. ROBINSON <br /> <br />Mr. Mayor, members of Council, I don't <br />feel quite right. I don't have may op- <br />position here. I don't like to back <br />door Mr. Rogers, give him an opportunity <br />to respond to our comments. <br />Most of you have heard us debate this <br />before; and it real~y comes down, I've heard <br />this at the meeting for the LUC; one of <br />the commissioners wanted to know why there <br />was a difference between professional <br />opinions on the same subject with the <br />same date. If we didn't have differences <br />in professional opinions, we wouldn't have <br />to have lawyers, that might be an advan- <br />tage; but then we wouldn't have horse <br />races either, and I enjoy that sport, so <br />we are faced here with a basic difference <br />of professional opinion on the probability <br />of significant damage, and I mean something <br />that would cost a homeowner or property <br />owner a major fee of $100 if there was <br />failure as a result of subsidence and I <br />have gone through this, I know many times, <br />but very simply, as a result of our drilling, <br />mapping and logging of this core, and re- <br />viewing all the reports that we can find <br />and all the data on the Boulder Weld County <br />field; we have found out that if you in- <br />clude all the mines and all the subsidence <br />there has been less then ! of 1% of the <br />area that has been undermined that has <br />failed. It does not matter what the depth <br />of the mine is. Let's take Marshall where <br />we can see subsidence and some of the areas <br />in this town where we can see subsidence. <br />You take all those figures. This is just <br />plain maps, very simple, nothing really <br />very scientific, but if you just add up <br />all the area that has been undermined and <br />you add up the areas that have failed, <br />you can calculate then that the percentage <br />is less then ! of 1%. This is on any <br />depth of mines. Now if you take and con- <br />sider mines that are over 150 feet in depth, <br />there has been no evidence of subsidence. <br />Even the CGS reports states that there is <br />no substantial evidence of subsidence where <br />the mines are over 150 feet deep. These <br />are basically the facts that we have used <br />and this started before we were working for <br />Mr. Mizel; I think some of you were on <br />Council at the time we had the discussion <br />about Sproul homes property, and this was <br />the first time the CGS made the statement <br />that they do not accept our position, that <br /> <br />s <br />