Amador County – Amador County Planning Commission will hold a public scoping session next Tuesday to discuss potential environmental impacts of a 380-acre aggregate mining and processing facility south of Highway 104, and north of Cook Road, about one-and-a-half miles west of Ione city limits, near the ISP Granule Plant.
The Amador County Planning Department announced the public scoping session to review and take public comment on the potential environmental impacts to be analyzed in the Draft Environmental Impact Report being prepared for the Newman Ridge Project, consisting of a 113-acre processing center called the “Edwin Center,” and a 278-acre “hard rock aggregate quarry” called the Newman Ridge Quarry.
Applicant Newman Minerals LLC seeks a “use permit and reclamation plan” for the mine with operations on 216 acres, and noted an “anticipated production level of 5 million tons per year, to be extracted over approximately 50 years.” Material would be processed on-site, and hauled out.
Newman Minerals seeks use of a trailer for an office, but no permanent buildings. Additional supporting permits are sought for grading, stockpiling, temporary building, and transportation.
At the processing center, Newman Minerals seeks a General Plan amendment from Mineral Resource Zone and Ag General to Industrial, and a Zone change from Single Family Residential and Ag, to Manufacturing.
The Planning Department notice said the 113-acre center “will host various material processing facilities, including an aggregate plant, asphaltic concrete plant (with a separate use permit), ready-mix concrete plant, asphalt and concrete recycling plant, and a railroad load-out facility for finished products.”
The Edwin Center application seeks “two 5,000-gallon above ground diesel fuel storage tanks in a secondary concrete containment structure, two truck scales, one fuel island with two fuel pumps, one steel or concrete tank for fresh water storage, and one temporary construction trailer.” It also seeks support permits for grading, stockpiling, transportation, excessive height, and temporary building.
The Planning Commission next week will also hold a public hearing on a request for a Zone change form R1A Single Family Residential and Ag District to “A,” Agricultural District, “for the purposes of expanding allowed by right uses for operation of Borjon Wines” in the Plymouth area.
The amendment is sought on Borjon property on the south side of Shenandoah Road, across from (and south of) the Bell Road junction in the Plymouth area. The project includes a Mitigated Negative Declaration.
¶ Amador Planning Commission meets at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 9, in the Supervisors’ chambers.
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