Consider just the blasting. Carrara began blasting above ground in 1990, and almost immediately the neighbors filed a petition to revoke the Carrara's Act 250 permit because of noise, fly-rock, and ...

It was a quarry blast similar to this one-- a routine occurrence in this McCook quarry. The state says it was within regulatory limits, but the tremor that followed seven seconds later was eight times ...

SWAMPSCOTT - The cause of a blasting mishap Monday afternoon that launched a more than 1-pound rock through the windshield of a passing car was still being investigated yesterday. This article can be ...

For an explosives engineer, flyrock should never be seen as an unfortunate but sometimes-unavoidable result of blasting, according to Jack Eloranta. By definition, flyrock is material soaring beyond ...

CENTER, Wis. (WBAY) - Conversations continue Tuesday night about a proposed gravel quarry in the Town of Center. The ...

For about an hour Sept 24, frustrated residents aired a myriad of grievances over summertime blasting on the Swampscott quarry. Before the Swampscott Board of Selectmen, neighbors to the Danvers Road ...

PETER AND MARIA, THE BLASTING COMPANY, SAYING THAT THOSE ROCKS CAME FROM HERE. THOUGH THE OWNERS OF THE QUARRY ITSELF SAYING THAT THEY DON’T HAVE A FIRM CONCLUSION ON THAT YET. BUT RESIDENTS AROUND ...

MILWAUKEE — A provision attached to the statewide shared revenue deal will limit local governments’ regulation of quarry operations, including when a city or town wants to limit when quarries extract ...