PROPOSED QUARRY MAY AFFECT AQUIFER

A permit application with the Department of Mines to open another rock quarry north of the town of Mill Creek and directly north and east of Martin Marietta is raising concerns over impacts to the Arbuckle Simpson Aquifer, Pennington Creek, and Mill Creek. The head springs for Pennington Creek are very near the acres dedicated to the new mine. The mine also crosses a tributary of Mill Creek.

Arbuckle Aggregates, LLC based in Frisco, TX. will be quarrying limestone and other materials. The application proposes the quarry getting their 1.5 million gallons of water a day for mining use from some of the water U.S. Silica is withdrawing daily from its active mine pit and pumping to their retired pit.

Also at issue is the use of and waste of pit water that will come from the proposed Arbuckle Aggregates mine once it penetrates the aquifer water table estimated to be between 15 and 44 feet beneath the surface.

CPASA has filed a protest with the Department of Mines.

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