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EIS indicates a final contour of 980 feet. The City Engineer does not feel this proposes a <br />significant problem. <br /> <br />Condition number 10 in the attached CUP, titled Traffic: <br />For the most part, the language contained in the current permit still pertains. However, staff <br />recommends that the reference to January 1, 2005 be replaced with language requiring <br />/tggregate Indus/ties use the Hi~,Swa_y 169/CS~dH 33 in/erchan~ge as soon as its on.r/ruction is finished. <br /> <br />Condition number 12 and 13 in the attached CUP, titled Hours of Operation and <br />Noise: <br />Normal hours of operation for mineral excavation are from 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m., <br />Monday through Saturday. Aggregate Industries requested and was granted extended hours <br />under their original permit, as long as it wasn't an annoyance to surrounding properties. For <br />two seasons the extended hours apparenfly were not a problem; however, this year staff has <br />received numerous complaints from neighbors regarding noise from this pit. <br /> <br />Staff has visited the neighborhoods experiencing problems during evening hours to confirm <br />the noise issues. On September 16, 2003, staff hosted a meeting between representatives of <br />Aggregate Industries and the neighbors bothered by the noise from the operation. <br /> <br />Of issue is not whether or not the noise complaints are legitimate. Rather, the issue is <br />whether or not Aggregate Industries can satisfactorily resolve the problem. Aggregate <br />Industries is proposing a number of remediation measures such as soundproofing their <br />primary crushed, rubber padding on the parts of their operation where gravel hits metal and <br />sound walls. <br /> <br />Staff hosted another meeting on October 14th in the Greenhead Third neighborhood, which <br />generated most of the noise complaints, to see if the measures taken by Aggregate Industries <br />adequately addressed the problem. The consensus at that meeting was that Aggregate <br />Industries did a good job and noise appears to be tolerable during their extended evening <br />hours of operation; however, the neighbors are still concerned that the city's permit retain <br />adequate language to revoke the extended hours in the future if noise again becomes a <br />problem. <br /> <br />Condition number 17 in the attached CUP, titled Groundwater Protection Measures: <br />During the neighborhood meeting staff hosted, a number of residents expressed concerns <br />regarding their wells. The city's EIS included a pump test to see what effects, if any, <br />appropriating large amounts of ground water for washing gravel would have on adjacent <br />wells. The pump test did indicate that there is a potential to affects the well at the residents <br />on the corner of CSAH 77 and 213~h Street. <br /> <br />Due to this concern, a number of conditions were placed on Aggregate Industries' washing <br />operation, including reporting drops in the ground water level and the city having the right <br />to curtail water appropriation. In addition, Aggregate Industries' wells is only twenty (25) <br />feet deep and they have a three (3) celled system that allo~vs wash water that doesn't <br />evaporate to filtrate back to the ground water. Staff feels that adequate conditions are in <br />placed to deal with this issue, especially since the houses in question are even a greater <br /> <br /> <br />