August 7, 2003

Mr. David Ouimette
Manager, Stationary Sources Program
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Air Pollution Control Division
4300 Cherry Creek Drive S.
Denver, Colorado 80246


Re: Ongoing Enforcement Action

Dear Mr. Ouimette,

All of the evidence that you have gathered from the unannounced inspection reports by the Boulder County Health Department and those reports performed by your personnel, affirm the toxic situation that citizens in this community have lived with everyday over many years.

The Watchdogs have done our utmost best over the last six years to support all of the regulatory agencies that have jurisdiction and oversight in this matter. Even before the Watchdogs, Alice Platt headed a community initiative from 1995-1998 to address these same site specific fugitive dust problems with you and the members of the Air Quality Control Commission.

People in this community have been alerting your office to fugitive dust issues from this source for the last nine years or more. The off-property transport of fugitive dust and sources of the dust have now been appropriately identified and documented. This has been a long campaign for the community, and many have made great personal sacrifices. We deserve results from your office that mirror the situation we have endured.

We need you to step up to the plate and end the poisoning of our environment. We expect you, Mr. Ouimette, to represent the people you are hired to protect and to enforce the laws which make Colorado a state that cares for its people and its environment.

All of the evidence is documented. The situation is exposed. We now want peace in our lives. We are putting our trust in you!

We respectfully request that your office will end these outrageous conditions now.

To illustrate your need to carefully and thoroughly represent the interests of our community, we attach an inter-office communication from Tom Tistinic describing the discovery by your office of unpermitted burning of fuels by the cement company when it was operating as Southwest Portland Cement.

We want to see matters such as described in the Tistinic memo addressed in a timely fashion, not fifteen years after the fact.

Thank you for your consideration.



Sincerely,



Richard E. Cargill Executive Director



Inclosure: Inter-office communication, dated February 28, 1991

Cc: Air Quality Control Commissioners Boulder County Board of Health Watchdogs John Barth, Sierra Club