Vulcan Quarry has withdrawn its application to expand its North Stafford mining operation.
Company spokesman Glenn Cobb emailed this statement to Potomac Local News and took no further questions:
"Vulcan Materials is committed to doing things the right way. After careful consideration, today, we withdrew our rezoning and conditional use permit applications in order to allow us time for our team, stakeholders, and neighbors to continue to work together on future plans for the Stafford Quarry. We will continue to listen to and work with our neighbors and other stakeholders in Stafford County as we look to serve the future needs of the community."
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By Cord Sterling
Rock Hill District
A proposal to significantly expand and extend the operations of the Vulcan quarry despite its encroachment (with explosives and crushing operations) on the people of Stafford who live in those neighborhoods now goes to the Board of Supervisors.
Do not think the impact will be isolated to the people that live nearby. The various communities along the routes taken by the new gravel and now cement trucks will also be impacted by noise and safety. And this is just the near term.
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During one of the longest meetings in recent memory for the Stafford County Planning Commission, the body voted to recommend denying a proposed expansion of a rock quarry.
The quarry, which has operated a mining operation just off Route 610 in North Stafford since 1976, applied to rezone 23 acres of land adjacent to the quarry from agricultural to industrial to expand one of two mining pits on the property. The expansion would give the quarry -- wedged between single-family homes on quarter-acre lots off Route 610 in North Stafford and Quantico Marine Corps Base -- 600 acres of land on which to operate.
Vulcan Materials, the Alabama-based company that operates the mining operation, is also applying for a conditional use permit to construct a new 50-foot-tall concrete plant on the site. The firm wants to relate its current Stafford County concrete plant just off Courthouse Road, near the recently improved highway interchange at Interstate 95 at milepost 140, and an expanded commuter lot.
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Stafford County officials said the Vulcan Quarry is going to clean up its act.
Weeks of little rainfall in the region have left the busy intersection outside the quarry, Garrisonville Vulcan Quarry roads in North Stafford, dusty and gray.
Giant dump trucks hauling rock have left a trail of dusty tire tracks on the pavement while the wind blows more dust off the top of the loads onto the passing cars.
