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A day in the life of
Mountain Division - Aggregates
| | | By: Nick Lulic / Production & Sales Engineering Manager - Mountain Division | | |
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Our Firestone pit is located thirty miles north of downtown Denver, CO. In the drawing below, the entire land mass between the county roads was owned by L.G. Everist, Inc. Recently, a large portion of the land was sold to the Town of Firestone for their use as a water reservoir after our mining operations were completed.
Many of the property holdings in Colorado share surface land rights with oil, gas facilities, and irrigation companies, among others. Our Firestone pit was no exception. Interspersed throughout the site were oil wells, collection lines, tank batteries, and a large irrigation ditch bisecting the entire site.
Over the last three years of negotiations with both the Ditch Company and Civitas Oil Company, planning, design, review, and approvals got it to the point of construction. Construction of the relocated ditch, and abandonment of the oil facilities, highlighted in the drawing below, commenced in January 2023.
| | Drawing of the old and new ditch with removed oil and gas infrastructure within Firestone | | | After a brutal Colorado winter, over 300,000 cubic yards of dirt moved, two new concrete diversion structures built, a temporary bridge structure over our mainline erected, 5 oil wells and almost 6,000 feet of pipeline abandoned, we were able to divert the water from the old ditch to new ditch on May 4, 2023. We are happy to report that the new ditch functions as intended. | | Diverting the water on May 4, 2023 | | |
With this relocation and abandonment project, we have extended our reserve life by a year and a half and saved approximately 1,000,000 CY of slope reclamation work, and gained 800 AC-FT of water storage.
Several of our employees deserve recognition as many hours went
into this project. Matt Noteboom, Vice President of the Mountain Division, spearheaded the first three years to get this project to the point of construction. Jason Ohlheiser, Plant Manager, and Oscar Beltran, Assistant Plant Manager, for orchestrating all the extra activity on their site. Colin Taylor for erecting the temporary bridge structure and for placing 1,400 feet of the mainline conveyor to our new mine cell in the northeast corner of the pit.
Also, thank you to all the Firestone pit employees as they not only look after their everyday responsibilities with respect to the mine and wash plant, but they jumped to the call on many occasions to lend a hand in completing this project. We appreciate all the employees who came from our other sites to help out.
Lastly, I worked tenaciously with OXY in the removal of their tank battery and flowlines from our next (now current) mining area.
| | Sam Haddan / Maintenance Manager at the new Platteville, CO shop | Sam is responsible for managing the maintenance, repair, and purchasing of the Mountain Division’s (Aggregates and Transload) mobile equipment. Sam manages 3 mechanics at our new shop location. | |  | |
Well-deserved recognition goes out to Sam for exceeding the normal call of duty. Sam looked after the layout and construction of the shop, assisted with the design and erection of our new Ragsdale wash plant. Sam continually and selflessly helped where needed.
Most recently, Sam has maintained improvements to the land infrastructure, repairs, and optimization of our plants, finding unique ways to save costs and shorten delivery times.
What a great attitude and aptitude to have. Thanks for all your dedication!
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Sam's top 5 international travel spots!
- Croatia - toured beaches and islands along the southern coastline and attended the Annual Ultra Music Festival.
- Australia - Visited Great Barrier Reef, The Twelve Apostles, City of Melbourne, Sydney Opera House, Ayers Rock (Uluru) and Bondi Beach.
- Venice, Italy - toured the Grand Canal by Gondola and walking the street-less city for its architecture.
- Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada - enjoyed visiting the wineries, my favorite wine is Meritage by Burrowing Owl Estate Winery.
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada - enjoyed the endless entertainment & cuisine.
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Employee Anniversaries
Fifteen Years
Kurt Bye
Dell Rapids East
Frank Carlson
Myrl & Roy's Fleet
Thirty-Five Years
Scott Rentz
Dell Rapids West
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July 9
Alan Hollatz
Brookings
Jose Barrera
Akron
Dusty Ruehlen
Kelker
July 10
Gregory Nordquist
Myrl & Roy's Fleet
July 11
Leonard Henke
Hawarden
July 13
Adrian Van Den Berg
Reynold
Scott Vosburg
88th - Transload
July 14
Logan VanderPlaats
East Sioux Quarry
| | LGE sponsored, prepped and served at the Banquet Downtown Sioux Falls | | |
On June 28th, LGE sponsored, prepped and served food to over 340 people at the Banquet, in downtown Sioux Falls. It was an eye-opening experience to see how many people in our community need this service. Thank you to everyone who volunteered their time and energy for the event. It was greatly appreciated!
We plan on volunteering again in the future for those that may have missed out on the opportunity.
| | The food preparation crew | | Our team served over 340 people at the Banquet | | Thank you to all our volunteers! | | |
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