RE: Clay mining operation

["Chris Storhok" <cstorhok@latah.id.us>]

Visionaries,
	The letter below addresses valid concerns.  Phil Nesbit, the lead geologist
for Alchemy Ventures, will present to the public Alchemy's plans for
developing their clay mines (leased from State land) and related value added
industries in Latah County and the region tonight (Tuesday, May 1) 7:00 pm
at the Bovill School.  We will hold a question and answer session after Mr.
Nesbit's presentation.  Please come prepared with any questions you can
think of.
	Topics of concern include, but are not limited to: a) environmental
degradation and/or restoration/reclamation; b) water quality; c) effects on
aquifers; c) transportation of clay by truck, rail lines, and barges from
Lewiston; d) impacts on infrastructure including: roads, schools, public
buildings, water systems, sewers, parks, emergency medical and fire
services, law enforcement, railroads, and so forth; e)job training; f)
partnerships with the universities; g) value added industries, h) what
industries/how to attract them or start them up/where to locate in Latah
County and the region; i) housing; and j) if JR Simplot could not make a
profit from clay mining, what makes Alchemy think they can.  Please bring
any questions you may have to tonight's session. It is important to have as
much public input as possible.
	If you cannot make tonight's meeting, Latah County Rural Development
Services (RDS) will hold another meeting in Deary on Tuesday May 8, 7:00pm,
at the Deary High School.  If necessary RDS will hold other meetings
throughout the rural communities.
Thanks,
Chris

Chris Storhok
Latah County Rural Development Services
(208) 883-7214
cstorhok@latah.id.us

-----Original Message-----
From: Dena Marchant [mailto:dena@aha.com]
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 4:07 PM
To: vision2020@moscow.com
Subject: FW: Clay mining operation


The following is a letter, posted with
the author's permission, about upcoming
meetings in Bovill and Deary this week
and next.

Dena Marchant

> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: James A. Foster (by way of Tim Cavileer)
> >>[mailto:foster@cs.uidaho.edu]
> >>Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 3:43 PM
> >>To: greencat@turbonet.com
> >>Subject: Clay mining operation
> >>
> >>
> >>Tim,
> >>
> >>Alchemy Ventures, the company that wants to do clay mining around
> >>Bovill, will be giving their PR pitch to the communities at 7pm Tuesday
> >>at the Bovill grade school, and 7pm NEXT tuesday (May 8) at the Deary
> >>high school. The meetings are sponsored by the Latah County Rural
> >>Development office (883-7214). The newspaper announcement in the weekend
> >>Daily News talks only about the jobs this will provide, as did the front
> >>page article in the Latah Eagle. There is no mention of environmental
> >>impact, or of any plans to minimize it.
> >>
> >>This mining operation could seriously degrade both the Potlatch river
> >>drainage and the Saint Maries drainage.
> >>
> >>Would you please forward this to Clearwater Flycasters, and to anyone
> >>else you think might be interested?
> >>
> >>thanks.
> >>--
> >>James A. Foster                   U. Idaho, Dept. Comp. Sci.
> >>Initiative for Bioinformatics & Evolutionary STudies (IBEST)
> >>www.cs.uidaho.edu/~foster         208.885.7062
> >>
> >>

--
James A. Foster                   U. Idaho, Dept. Comp. Sci.
Initiative for Bioinformatics & Evolutionary STudies (IBEST)
www.cs.uidaho.edu/~foster         208.885.7062