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Amount of Lime rock to be Mined?
According to Tarmac representatives' testimony at the December 3, 2007 Planning Commission:
600 million tons of lime rock will be mined, of which 300 million tons will be shipped out and 300 million tons will be returned to the pits, over a hundred year span.
Number of Trucks?
The following is a page from "Tarmac Lime-Rock Mine Traffic Concurrency Study" copied from records of the Levy County Building Dept on Thursday 2/7/08.
According to Tarmac representatives' testimony at the December 3, 2007 Planning Commission:
3 million tons of lime rock will be shipped out on approximately 500 trucks (however, see application for 1000 loaded trucks on 11/12/07 above), Monday through Saturday, from 7 a.m. to 7 pm, excluding federal holidays.
Approximately 80% of the trucks will head south and 20% will head north on Rt. 19.
Test holes/pits have been dug to the depth of at least 120 feet.
Approximately 9400 acres?:
Amount of Water to be Used?:
According to Tarmac representatives' testimony at the December 3, 2007 Planning Commission:
22 million gallons of water would be drawn
from the aquifer daily. They estimated that they would return 21 million gallons
to the pits/lakes that remained after the lime rock was removed.
At this same Planning Commission
Meeting concerned local residents posed questions regarding:
Karst features of our aquifer
Water quality, contamination, flow, quantity
Evaporation from large pits/lakes
Lowering of the
water table
Saltwater intrusion into aquifer/ wells
Effect on the
springs and streams in the area, flow direction, solution channels
Record
drought of the area and state
Wetlands
Floodplain
Future water needs from residential growth
Competing water needs for proposed nuclear plant nearby
Future responsibility
for well failure or contamination
Discharge area to the Gulf
Wildlife and biodiversity in the area
Coastal High Hazard areas
Irreversible changes to the landscape and environment
