No Quarry!
From Save Our Southwest Hills
Granite Construction Proposes a Quarry Just North of Fallbrook
Compare what Granite says to the facts.
Truth Update #1
Aggregate Shortage?
In an advertising supplement, published July 26, Granite Construction stated: “The region has only 17% of the permitted reserves needed, for the next 50 years.”
Not accurate!
Consider the following:
• The Aggregate Reserve Study only considers quarry reserves based on the “permitted life” of the quarry site. Many quarries can apply to have their operational life extended (and most likely will since that is the business they are in).
• The Aggregate Reserve Study numbers do not include aggregate that is currently being brought into California via ship or barge from Canada.
• The statewide Aggregate Reserve Study only considers reserves at fixed quarry locations. “Portable” quarry locations, which provide hundreds of thousands of tons of aggregate, are not included in the Aggregate Reserve Study numbers.
• Granite Construction’s Rosemary’s Mountain Quarry is not included in the State of California’s Department of Conservation Aggregate Reserve Study. Even as of August 2009, Granite Construction’s fully permitted Rosemary’s Mountain Quarry is not even shown as one of Granite’s “Aggregate Facilities” on its own website.
• Riverside County has more than 50 active quarries, more than any other county in the State of California.
• Riverside County is an exporter of aggregate to other counties, including San Diego, Orange and Los Angeles.
• There is now more and more recycling being done and required. The material gained from recycling does not show up in the available material figures.
