A rock quarry located near a Jefferson County elementary school must halt its operations following a Board of Zoning Appeals meeting on Tuesday. The quarry off of Highway 25 roughly 200 yards away from Piedmont Elementary has been met with community concerns over noise, dust, and regular blasting activity. Community members hired a lawyer in an effort to halt work…
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Permitting Update: Ontario, Canada
The Ontario Land Tribunal ruled CBM Aggregates, a division of St. Marys Cement Inc. which operates over 60 gravel pits and quarries in Ontario, can expand the Lanci Pit by 14.8 hectares, or about 36.5 acres, with 10 hectares of that being the extraction area. The original pit, located on Concession 2 just west of Aberfoyle, had a licensed area…
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The latest plan to quintuple the size of the Padua Ridge gravel mine is inadequate to protect its neighbor, the Watkins Glen State Park, from a host of potentially severe environmental risks, the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation declared last week. The developer’s 784-page draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) fails to fully address multiple threats, including stormwater…
Read MorePermitting Update: North Carolina
Wake Stone Corp. plans to create a rock quarry on 105 acres it has leased from Raleigh-Durham International Airport. Now opponents of the quarry say they’ve discovered a 48-year-old surveying error that reduces the airport’s property by as much as 14 acres. They say that land was purchased by the National Park Service in 1937 and turned over to the…
Read MorePermitting Update: Colorado
An application for a proposed gravel mine at Dotsero may return, but it will be a while, and any new application will be changed from the one heard Monday by the Eagle County Board of Commissioners. After nearly four hours of public hearing Monday, the developer of the proposed mine withdrew the application. In deliberations, all three commissioners said they’d…
Read MorePermitting Update: Arizona
On Wednesday, Feb. 28, Fain Signature Group released drone footage of the proposed remote sand and gravel site for public consumption. The video has been provided to allow the general public to view the remote site being zoned and the surrounding area.
Read MorePermitting Update: Virginia
The Rockingham County Board of Supervisors discussed whether or not to allow the Frazier Quarry to expand operations to its land on Buttermilk Creek Road, according to WHSV.
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According to the News Leader, how far away from a quarry would a house have to be for you to consider living in it? Would that change if you worked for the quarry? That’s the question at the core of an ordinance considered by the Augusta County Board of Supervisors on Jan. 24. The debate is not over – the…
Read MorePermitting from South Carolina
According to the Times and Democrat, the nation’s largest producer of construction aggregates has applied for permits to establish a limestone quarry and processing plant on Addidas Road, less than four miles southeast of the town of Eutawville, S.C. A subsidiary, Vulcan Construction Materials LLC, proposes to lease multiple tracts totaling 693 acres from a sister subsidiary called Vulcan Lands…
Read MorePermitting Update: Washington
After almost 10 months of friction between the company and its neighbor Fairmount Elementary School, the Mountain Loop Mine submitted a permit application to Snohomish County on Feb. 14.
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