Huge Pit Mine in the middle of So. Calif?

Images and Information from a trip I made to nearby mine run by company that want's to build one less that two miles from my home in Temecula, CA.

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• Temecula
• CA
• Liberty
• Quarry
• pit
• mine
• mining
• environment

[gwuengr2]

This quarry wouldn't be in our backyard, it would be in our front yard!

[robbieadkins]

@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.

[erect1on]

what pollution are you talking about? Rock?? What are you talking about?

[robbieadkins]

@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.

[fullvaluetv]

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.

[robbieadkins]

I have it in a higher resolution but reduced the file size to post.

[MrTheCommish]

@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

[xanyxxxx]

I'm so glad I learned about the Liberty Quarry before investing money into the area housing... I could have burned them as well.

[Horquilla12345]

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.

[MTB710]

-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]

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

[jeffhaaarrrrrrrddddy]

BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!