Vulcan Materials plans to expand its holdings in the Columbia, SC.
Vulcan is one step from getting final approval to buy more than 70 acres from Richland County that would enlarge the firm’s land holdings in metropolitan Columbia, reports the State.com.
Vulcan Materials is a single Richland County Council vote away from a $273,600 purchase of 72 acres off Fairfield Road north of I-20. The county uses the land as a source of soil to cover garbage at its adjacent Caughman Road North landfill. The property also is next to Vulcan’s current 260-acre mining site in that area.
Vulcan eventually will ask the state environmental agency to grant a mining permit for the 72 acres, but only after doing more drilling and other tests, Jimmy Fleming, Vulcan’s vice president for permitting, said last week.
Separately, Vulcan received approval in December from the state Department of Health and Environmental Control to mine a quarry on 553 acres in Lexington County. But the permit is under appeal by opponents in the rural area between Gilbert and Batesburg-Leesville.
