Metro Recycling & Crushing, a Castleton, N.Y., firm, is looking to increase its rock crushing capabilities from 150 tons per hour to 400 tons per hour. The company already has a permit to process 150 tons of material an hour. Metro is looking to add a portable jaw crusher that will allow the company to increase its production at the sand and gravel mine at a site called Rock Mountain Farms in Rochester, N.Y.
At the present time the regulated process including a portable aggregate plant consisting of a number of conveyors, a jaw crusher, a secondary rock crusher and a screening unit.
However, in accordance with New York State provisions, a legislative public hearing is required where residents of the surrounding communities could provide testimony on the application. Additionally, interested parties are permitted to submit written statements to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation by July 1.
According to local press reports, a host of citizens from the area were expected to file complaints, ranging from the damage an expansion would do to the roadway leading to and from the facility, to the potential for contamination of water wells that are used by residents surrounding the facility.Latest from Recycling Today
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