A community resource designed to share information about the proposed 421-acre quarry outside of Calhoun, TN
What does 50 years of blasting look like?
Someone suggested the quarry picture on this page is misleading. We have said the picture is indeed, not the current piece of property owned by Tarver. And we will say further, the Calhoun/McMinn Quarry will probably look different after 50 years of blasting. But the idea is the same. Townhill said the quarry pit will 30 acres, the rest of the 421 acres will be "affected area", according to the application. What does affected area mean? If you look at the picture of the quarry here, it appears the quarry pit is roughly 30 acres, the rest of the blasted area is "affected area". You CANNOT blast out 1,250,000 million tons of rock EVERY YEAR for 50 YEARS (as the Quarry application states - their words, not ours) and keep a rock quarry to 30 acres. Anyone who believes that is fooling themselves.
Does anyone know how big the whole quarry in the picture is? Is it more or less than 421 acres? That would be helpful to know.
ReplyDeletelooks like a much bigger quarry than whats being proposed
ReplyDeleteMary, the proposed quarry is 421 acres, and includes an asphalt plant and a concrete plant. Tarver owns over 1000 acres. Who's to say he doesn't sell the rest of the land in the next 20 years to expand this quarry even further? Once you approve the first 421 acres, who knows how big it will get. Since the County has no zoning, this can get as big as they want and no one can tell them otherwise. You can't un-ring this bell.
ReplyDeleteA 50 acre quarry" pit is HUGE........this 50 acres does not court all the additional area needed for all the stuff needed to crush the rock. The entire 450+ acreas will be as white as snow with every tree and every blade of grass GONE. These NY developers treat us like mushrooms-----they keep us in the dark and feed us s*#@!
ReplyDeleteWell, none of this would be happening if people like you had allowed Mr. Tarver to build that larger distribution plant for Budweiser. Of course, you couldn't do that, because they would be dumping beer in the river and all the wildlife would be alcoholics.
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