Laporte residents: Our town, gravel pit don’t mix
Proposed gravel pit riles Laporte residents. Laporte residents are trying to keep a proposed 123-acre gravel pit and concrete batch plant out of their community.
Following a rowdy neighborhood meeting on March 7, Loveland Ready-Mix Concrete has made minimal progress in convincing Laporte residents that the company’s proposed gravel pit and concrete batch plant will do more good than harm.
Large piles of dirt near First Street and Wilson Avenue have been drawing attention from neighbors who wonder if the proposed gravel-mining operation they oppose has gotten an early start. The digging, which started around the first of June just west of the city of Loveland’s service center, is indeed a gravel mine, but the operation is a smaller dig outside city limits that was approved in 2006, according to the property’s owner.
Outdoor enthusiasts fighting plan for gravel mine, asphalt plant near Colorado River in Eagle County
A plan to develop a gravel pit mine and asphalt plant on a sage brush mesa above the Colorado River is roiling Eagle County river users and open-space advocates who have spent years fighting to protect the corridor from development.
Grand Junction asphalt paving firm Elam Construction and landowner Karl Berger are asking the Gypsum Town Council to annex more than 150 acres above the Colorado River and issue a special permit to allow the company to develop a 10-year pit mine and asphalt plant that could produce and process 230,000 tons of aggregate a year for construction in the growing Eagle Valley.
Gypsum council rejects plan for gravel pit above Colorado River near Dotsero
Dozens of residents blast the plan, warning of impacts to environment, recreation at the portal to the river corridor. After a steady stream of Eagle County residents blasted a plan to develop a gravel pit on a mesa above the Colorado River near Dotsero, the Gypsum Town Council took barely two minutes Tuesday night to unanimously reject the project. In a four-hour emotional meeting late Tuesday, a tide of opposition to the gravel pit proposal by Elam Construction flooded council chambers.
Homeowners along Colorado River Road, which meanders along the banks of the Colorado River north of Interstate 70, lamented the noise, dust and truck traffic that would accompany the proposed gravel pit. Residents of the Two Rivers Village, a tight- knit community of entry-level homes, worried their home values would crater with a pit as a neighbor. They worried about impacts to water quality and wildlife with a gravel mine and asphalt plant between open space along the river below and BLM land above. They urged council members to consider the recreational character of the area, which is a portal to both the upper Colorado River and the popular Flat Tops Wilderness Area.
Lawsuit looms over Lafarge gravel mine
Dick Ulmer’s spacious six-year-old custom home sits atop a hill in Placitas that overlooks a massive gravel mining operation alive with the day-long grinding sound of machinery.