Sorry I just found your post. The pollution would be microscopic silica - very destructive to the lungs, diesel exhaust from 1,400 truck trips in and out up a steep road in and out daily, ammonium nitrate in the ground water that feeds the Santa Margarita River, water supply to Camp Pendelton, light pollution at night as they would work 24 hours a day. Noise pollution from the blasting. come to the planning hearing April 26, 2011 Rancho Comm. Church, Temecula.
@robbieadkins - you do realize that silicate minereals are the most common minerals on the earth's crust right? Silica is literally EVERYWHERE. There are very strict emissions standards for companies who generate particulate (or any other) air emissions.
The truck trips are dictated by demand (not created by the quarry). If there will be 1400 trucks in and out daily....that means they are already on the road. NOt many people decide to build a new subdivision because a quarry moves to town
You want to enjoy all of the products provided by the mining industry but absolutely refuse to have a facility like this near your community. I guess it would okay with you if was in someone elses backyard as along as you can continue to enjoy the benefits you receive from the products provided by such operations. You need to take responsibility for your own lifestyle.
Terrible idea. Not to mention that the proposed quarry site sits right ontop of an active fault line, it would pollute the nearby Santa Margarita River, it will be a major eyesore to everybody living and traveling through and nearby. I could careless about the jobs it creates, if you want the jobs so much, find somewhere else to put the quarry. Not anywhere near here. It also contributes to smog, Corona is already suffering from the effects of it's quarry's pollution. Another thing, it's
Another thing, it's dead-center in the middle of the Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve. Can't Granite find a different, less-harmful place to build another quarry? It's not like there mining for diamonds or gold. It's just granite. The Jurupa Hills near Riverside have plenty of it.
It seems like if Granite is digging a big hole for their mining process, they could confine their industrial activities so they take place within the excavation (and visual impacts would be limited to the first phase of the project).
Fugitive dust is not allowed to escape past the property line due to local air quality regulations...they have to make sure this happens (as you can see, this is a task that requires constant attention).
i like this idea think about all the jobs. this lady sounds like a mom not a scientist. and the valley sucks now anyway with the constant city traffic and fumes
My biggest problem with the 'video' you have here is that it is not a video, but a slideshow of pictures that appear to have been taken from a camera phone. You can clearly see anything at all.
I think that uploading a higher res version would be better than what you have now, although I thank you for the one you put up, it enticed me to make my own.
I'll be going to college in a year, but I'd like to return to my hometown at some point and find it, y'know, not covered in dust and the remains of quarry blasts. Blech.
It's wonderful to care about your home town. Even when you go away and move on with your life, this will always be a special place for you. We are going to start working on a visitor/science center for the SDSU Ecological reserve on the side of the hill overlooking the valley. If you are interested in helping...let me know!
thank you for telling the truth about this issue! just go next to where regular construction is going on...behind my house there is a huge lot under construction (they use water trucks daily) where they had to blast some of the mountains away and still today our houses are filled with massive dust on a daily basis--we are always sick and our asthma is worse-- so i cannot imagine what this would be like.
So sorry you are having to deal with the dust issue. It's not good for anyone. Sometimes necessary but a shame when it is "in your back yard". We are going to start working on a visitor/science center for the SDSU Ecological reserve on the side of the hill overlooking the valley. If you are interested in helping...let me know!
This quarry wouldn't be in our backyard, it would be in our front yard!
gwuengr2 10 months ago
@gwuengr2
Yes, it would be in ALL the yards, front and back, of the 100,000 homes directly down wind from this really bad idea.
robbieadkins 10 months ago
I'm so glad I learned about the Liberty Quarry before investing money into the area housing... I could have burned them as well.
xanyxxxx 1 year ago
what pollution are you talking about? Rock?? What are you talking about?
erect1on 2 years ago
@erect1on
Sorry I just found your post. The pollution would be microscopic silica - very destructive to the lungs, diesel exhaust from 1,400 truck trips in and out up a steep road in and out daily, ammonium nitrate in the ground water that feeds the Santa Margarita River, water supply to Camp Pendelton, light pollution at night as they would work 24 hours a day. Noise pollution from the blasting. come to the planning hearing April 26, 2011 Rancho Comm. Church, Temecula.
robbieadkins 10 months ago
@robbieadkins - you do realize that silicate minereals are the most common minerals on the earth's crust right? Silica is literally EVERYWHERE. There are very strict emissions standards for companies who generate particulate (or any other) air emissions.
The truck trips are dictated by demand (not created by the quarry). If there will be 1400 trucks in and out daily....that means they are already on the road. NOt many people decide to build a new subdivision because a quarry moves to town
MrTheCommish 10 months ago
You want to enjoy all of the products provided by the mining industry but absolutely refuse to have a facility like this near your community. I guess it would okay with you if was in someone elses backyard as along as you can continue to enjoy the benefits you receive from the products provided by such operations. You need to take responsibility for your own lifestyle.
Horquilla12345 3 years ago
Terrible idea. Not to mention that the proposed quarry site sits right ontop of an active fault line, it would pollute the nearby Santa Margarita River, it will be a major eyesore to everybody living and traveling through and nearby. I could careless about the jobs it creates, if you want the jobs so much, find somewhere else to put the quarry. Not anywhere near here. It also contributes to smog, Corona is already suffering from the effects of it's quarry's pollution. Another thing, it's
MTB710 3 years ago
-continued from last comment-
Another thing, it's dead-center in the middle of the Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve. Can't Granite find a different, less-harmful place to build another quarry? It's not like there mining for diamonds or gold. It's just granite. The Jurupa Hills near Riverside have plenty of it.
MTB710 3 years ago
BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jeffhaaarrrrrrrddddy 3 years ago
It seems like if Granite is digging a big hole for their mining process, they could confine their industrial activities so they take place within the excavation (and visual impacts would be limited to the first phase of the project).
Fugitive dust is not allowed to escape past the property line due to local air quality regulations...they have to make sure this happens (as you can see, this is a task that requires constant attention).
bullesticles 3 years ago
i like this idea think about all the jobs. this lady sounds like a mom not a scientist. and the valley sucks now anyway with the constant city traffic and fumes
Rockyface 4 years ago
My biggest problem with the 'video' you have here is that it is not a video, but a slideshow of pictures that appear to have been taken from a camera phone. You can clearly see anything at all.
fullvaluetv 4 years ago
I have it in a higher resolution but reduced the file size to post.
robbieadkins 4 years ago
I think that uploading a higher res version would be better than what you have now, although I thank you for the one you put up, it enticed me to make my own.
fullvaluetv 4 years ago
I'll be going to college in a year, but I'd like to return to my hometown at some point and find it, y'know, not covered in dust and the remains of quarry blasts. Blech.
Runaan 5 years ago
It's wonderful to care about your home town. Even when you go away and move on with your life, this will always be a special place for you. We are going to start working on a visitor/science center for the SDSU Ecological reserve on the side of the hill overlooking the valley. If you are interested in helping...let me know!
robbieadkins 4 years ago
thank you for telling the truth about this issue! just go next to where regular construction is going on...behind my house there is a huge lot under construction (they use water trucks daily) where they had to blast some of the mountains away and still today our houses are filled with massive dust on a daily basis--we are always sick and our asthma is worse-- so i cannot imagine what this would be like.
annauriburu 5 years ago
So sorry you are having to deal with the dust issue. It's not good for anyone. Sometimes necessary but a shame when it is "in your back yard". We are going to start working on a visitor/science center for the SDSU Ecological reserve on the side of the hill overlooking the valley. If you are interested in helping...let me know!
robbieadkins 4 years ago