Key points
- The terms require the company to create a buffer and operate within specific hours.
- It must also notify residents before using explosives to harvest limestone from mine.
- Judge required the company to alter operations in January to accommodate complaints from residents and churches.
A Limestone County Court agreed to the terms that residents and a mining company in Bella Mina negotiated over a dispute regarding the environmental impacts over a quarry.
Circuit Court Judge Matthew R. Huggins signed the consent order last week required Grayson Carter & Son, Inc., the firm that owned and operated the quarry, to change its operations and establish a buffer meant to reduce the burden on the surrounding properties.
Barry Brock, a senior attorney and director of Southern Environmental Law Center in Alabama, an environmental legal advocacy organization that represented residents, said that the consent order was a compromise between the two groups…