Craig Robelen, president of the Blue River Horse Center, assesses the stables at the center s new home at the former 80-acre Hillyard Ranch property at 35405 Colorado Highway 9, 15 minutes north of Silverthorne, on Friday, April 9, 2021. The horse center is able to use the property this summer for equestrian-based emotional awareness and leadership training programs through a lease from Kilgore Cos., owner of Peak Materials.
Photo by Joel Wexler
The Blue River Horse Center has found a new home after all thanks to a generous lease agreement from Peak Materials and Kilgore Cos.
Horse center president Craig Robelen described the Hillyard property as sensational.
Last week, I was transported to a dystopic chapter from our past. I witnessed big business and big government run roughshod over the interests of the people of the state of Colorado.
I thought we learned our lesson. Historically, the mining industry has not been a good steward of our precious environment. to expand its gravel mining operation into bucolic northern Silverthorne. The application has been conditionally approved by the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety.
Misguided state employees insisted they need extra hearing time to rebut the people opposing the mine. Are they mixed up? State employees are supposed to represent the interests of the people.
Photo from Peak Materials
Arguments about the allotment of time for each party to present at the board hearing for the Peak Ranch Resource Project drove the conversation at the pre-hearing conference Wednesday.
The project proposed by Peak Materials is a gravel mine north of Silverthorne. The Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board will consider the application for the Peak Ranch Resource Project at the upcoming hearing April 21-22 and will decide whether it will approve, approve with conditions or deny the application before it would move on to Summit County officials.
The project has been adamantly opposed by residents in the area, and 58 participants attended the virtual pre-hearing conference.
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, including preliminary review comments from the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety, comments from Summit County and 142 objection letters.
The company is currently in the permitting process with the state. If the permits are awarded, Peak Materials will then have to obtain two permits from Summit County before the project can begin: one to mine materials on the 75-acre Hillyard property, which is about seven miles north of Silverthorne, and one to import the materials to the company’s Maryland Creek Ranch facility about 11 miles south of the mining site.