What is the Extent of Expansion of the Azusa Rock Quarry Plan?
Azusa Rock Quarry is located in the city of Azusa, California, near the border of the city of Duarte (see map below). Note: Images may take some time to load.
Vulcan Materials Company or its subsidiaries owns several parcels of land in Azusa. Three parcels make up the 190 acres allowed for mining under the current Conditional Use Permit (CUP). Vulcan wants to expand the mining operation by adding the west-most 80 acres to a new CUP, bringing the total acres mined to 270.
However, Vulcan is marketing the proposal as a reduction of acreage, saying that they will stop all mining on the east side of the quarry. The fallacy of this claim is that most of this acreage has already been mined (even going beyond the eastern boundary in one instance) and would not yield substantially more rock. The image below is a satellite photo of the Vulcan mine and the proposed expansion.
The image below shows the proposed Vulcan mining expansion as seen from Azusa (east of the mine).
The image below shows the proposed Vulcan mining expansion as seen from Duarte (west of the mine).
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