Aggregate Industries is nearing a start date to begin filling its rock quarry in Saugus, Massachusetts.
Brad Kohl, the head of Aggregate Industries Northeast Region expects trucks to commence delivering material that will be used to fill the rock quarry by June 21, reports WickedLocal.com.
Aggregate Director of Land and Environment Lisa Young said Aggregate is close to finalizing an administrative consent order with the state Department of Environmental Protection to allow the company to use acceptable materials as fill for the quarry.
“We hope that next week it will be circulated for signatures,” Young said at a June 5 meeting of the Aggregate Post Closure Committee.
Aggregate estimates that it will require 7 million cubic yards of material to fill in the quarry located at its plant off Route 99. The company has projected that up to 250 trucks carrying fill will arrive at the quarry on permitted days of operation once the reclamation project hits its stride.
Last year committee members adopted a Land Reclamation Agreement between the town and Aggregate that aims to fill in the quarry within the next 15 years and to redevelop the property according to highest and best uses.
Zoning in place for the quarry site currently allows contractors yards, auto body work, automotive sales, commercial garages, self-storage facilities and warehouse operations — uses that Aggregate has agreed to not pursue in the signed LRA.
According to the agreement, Aggregate will be required to produce a master plan that should promote a complementary mix of uses, appropriate buffer zones, open space and amenities and logical vehicular and pedestrian circulation systems.
