Aggregates Manager Digital Magazine
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State & Province Province NEWS To keep up to date with news from the United States and Canada, visit www.AggMan.com for daily updates. by Therese Dunphy, Editor-in-Chief tdunphy@randallreilly.com AGGREGATES MANAGER November 2015 4 Kentucky Clark Circuit Judge William Clouse Jr. ruled against a neighborhood group's effort to reverse the rezoning of land for an underground quarry in Clark County. According to the Lexington Herald-Leader, the judge affi rmed the county government's approval of rezon- ing to allow The Allen Co.'s Madison County quarry to reopen an underground quarry on the Clark County side of its property. The underground quarry operated from the 1930s until 1959, before current planning and zoning regulations were in place. The operation is still seeking approval for its plan to build a con- veyor that would transport material from the under- ground quarry to the surface operation for processing. An attorney for the Southwest Clark Neighborhood Association told the newspaper that an appeal was likely. California 3M put its 1,850-acre Moody Flats Quarry project on hold for now. According to Record Searchlight, the company has not withdrawn its application or its EIR nor does it want to change the scope of the project. It simply isn't prepared to go forward with the project at this time. Its draft EIR was circulated one year ago and drew more than 300 letters from Shasta County resi- dents. The project could be restarted at any time. New Jersey U.S. Concrete, Inc. announced that it acquired the Wantage Stone reserves, a site development quarry including an 80-acre land parcel, along with mining rights to an additional 77 acres of land in Hamburg. The reserves will enhance the company's ability to serve the northern New Jersey and New York metropolitan markets with 19 million tons of proven and permit- ted reserves and an additional 19 million tons of unpermitted, but available, reserves. "The acquisition of these aggregate assets is directly aligned with our strategic objectives to expand our construction material operations and strengthen our vertically integrated capabilities," says U.S. Concrete Presi- dent and CEO Bill Sandbrook. California In late September, a man's body was found at a Rocklin quarry. The Sacramento Bee reports that both Rocklin police and the Placer County sheriff's depart- ment were investigating the case, after receiving a call that a body was found fl oating in the quarry pond. At Aggregates Manager's press time, the body had been turned over to the Placer County coroner's offi ce to determine the identity and cause of death. New Jersey Rowan University is buying a 65-acre quarry from Inversand. According to NorthJersey.com, the institution is paying $2 mil- lion for the property. Inversand President Tom Carrino said that it has lost millions of dollars on it over the last several years as it kept the quarry open in hopes that it could become a full-time research site. Vertebrates found on the site include the remains of ancient sea turtles and marine lizards, called mosasaurs. Once the sale is complete, the site will be known as Rowan University Fossil Quarry, and a museum will be built on the property as it becomes the hub of science education and a centerpiece of the university's new School of Earth and Envi- ronment. Maine Eddington residents are learning to be careful what they wish for. According to the Bangor Daily News, residents voted 139 to 56 to support rules that cre- ated 1,500-foot setbacks for mineral extraction properties. Those setbacks are 15 times the state's regulations and fi ve times greater than setbacks set in most Maine municipalities. Their intent was to prevent a proposed ledge quarry project by Hughes Bros., however the rule applies to all materials including rock, gravel, sand, topsoil, peat, and anything else removed from the ground. Stockpil- ing is also disallowed, making the rule particularly diffi cult for area landscapers. Residents who are unhappy with the rule have asked that the setbacks be reduced, but haven't fi led the correct paperwork to start the review process. In the meantime, Hughes Bros. is appealing a decision by Superior Court Jus- tice Michaela Murphy that the town legally enacted its retroactive moratorium on quarries.