An application for a permit for a major limerock mining operation close to the intersection of U.S. Highway 41 and County Road 322 in Williston is expected to provide controversy at the May meeting of the Levy County Planning Board.
It is the planning board’s first meeting in several months as applications for permits and special exceptions plummeted with the national economy. The board meets at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the Levy County Courthouse on Court Street in Bronson.
Johannes Vanderwey, who owns 47.98 acres, of the 88.18 acres included in the project site, has applied for conditional approval of a special exception use permit to do major mining on 68.8 acres for the next 20 years.
The operation will include blasting to crack and loosen the rock, crushing to reduce its size, and transportation from the site on a nearby rail and by truck. The application says no water will be pumped at the site and the stone will not be washed at the site.
About 80 percent will go by rail with loading into the rail cars occurring at a rail spur to be built by Vanderwey Limerock Mine. The remaining 20 percent leaving the site by truck.
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