Five years after the Buzzi Unicem cement quarry asked for permission to dig deeper, the Stockertown-based plant has now withdrawn that request, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
Critics of the cement company questioned whether water pumped from its pits was contributing to sinkholes in the Bushkill Creek.
While Buzzi maintains the sinkholes occur naturally, the critics have noted that sinkholes forced the state to replace a pair of highway bridges in 2004 and then again this year…