Pit & Quarry, November 2018
PERMITTING Mining at Memphis Stone Gravels Sawyer Property in DeSoto County Mississippi was completed within the last several years Memphis Stone Gravels Alan Parks details the growing difficulties producers face to obtain necessary permits while offering some practical strategies that can position others for success uccessfully locating proving and developing aggregate resources have never been simple tasks In fact depending on whom you ask these efforts have become monumentally more challenging in recent years for aggregate producers Spend a day with Alan Parks vice president at Memphis Stone Gravel Co and youll quickly gain a basic understanding of the many hurdles producers like him must leap to establish a brand new site When I first started in this business BY KEVIN YANIK wed hear from producers in Florida and California that it would take 10 years to get a permit says Parks whos responsible for directing Memphis Stone Gravels mine exploration and planning efforts I thought then that Im glad its not our problem Now it is Memphis Stone Gravel which supplies a variety of aggregate products to Memphis Tennessee and north Mississippi is by no means the only producer facing local opposition as it pursues growth As Parks plainly puts it something changed over the last several years with the local permitting process Opponents of crushed stone sand and gravel sites have always been around Parks contends and producers faced many of the same issues a decade ago that they do today But local governments were more willing to work with producers back then than they are now he says Years ago local officials might have worked aggregate producers over a bit but producers were ultimately awarded the permits they coveted The same cannot be said of the permitting environment today Theres been a diversion somewhere Parks says S Alan Parks at Memphis Stone Gravels former Love Plant The one time site is being reclaimed as a Bill Dance Signature Lake ALL IMAGES KEVIN YANIK MAKING A CASE FOR A MINE PERMIT 60 PIT QUARRY November 2018 pitandquarry com
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