This overlay on an aerial drawing shows the tentative layout of the Vulcan Materials quarry with Hwy. 36 East in the bottom right corner. It depicts the pit areas where rock will be removed, the buffers required under its agreements and a tenant site which will an asphalt or concrete plant. That operation will be subject to its own zoning hearings, etc. Overburden is the soil and other material removed to get to the rock in the quarry which could operate for 80 years, spokesman Jimmy Fleming said last week. (Photo: Vulcan Materials)
Quarry decision expected by the end of the year
Vulcan Materials personnel continue to evaluate the quarry site off Hwy. 36 East, doing test drilling and engineering where exactly the entrance off the highway would be as they mull over the go/no go decision there.
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