River’s Edge Concrete, an affiliate of Chard Tiling and Excavation in Belle Plaine, will operate the ready-mix operation at 8680 158th St., near the city border with Prior Lake. Prior Lake Aggregates has been actively mining the 288 acre site since the early 1970s.
The new plant in the gravel pit will create dry batches of ready-mix material by directly loading a mix of aggregate, cement and water into turning drums of ready-mix trucks. The equipment used to do this is 70-feet tall by 11-feet wide and will occupy a 100-foot-by-100-foot area behind the existing office/shop area. There is also a control trailer that houses computer controls, four storage bins for aggregate materials and cement storage silos.
When the request for an interim-use permit to operate the ready-mix operation came before the Savage Planning Commission on May 20, eight residents who live near the gravel pit were in attendance. Several offered concerns about the hours of operation, increases in truck traffic, noise, air quality, and the impact to underground water supplies.
So when the Planning Commission approved the interim use permit, it added a condition that the ready-mix operation be limited to operating Monday-Friday and not Saturday.
Read more in the June 12 Savage Pacer.
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