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Carver MA threatened by solar, battery storage, sand and gravel mining

Carver: Update on lawsuit challenging Carver Earth Removal Committee 2021 permit to SLT Construction to expand mining on to abutting property

Group of thirteen residents forced to go to court to try to protect their homes, lives from expansion of massive commercial mining operation May, 2023 legal memorandum by lawyers representing neighbors tells court the second permit issued in 2021 is invalid This case stems from the Carver Earth Removal Committee’s November 2021 issuance of an…

Kingston: Sand & Gravel Mining company sued for negligence, nuisance, trespass

Operation emits particulate dust, noise, vibration damaging and harming abutting private property After conducting a mining operation for decades, company dumps “urban debris” in pit, threatening drinking water aquifer On August 11, 2022, a Kingston resident living next to the O’Donnell sand and gravel mining site sued the company in Superior Court. The lawsuit seeks…

Rochester, MA: Cranberry company sues Ryco Excavating for digging too deep into the aquifer, not paying for all sand and gravel extracted

In 2015, cranberry company Decas sued Ryco Excavating for digging too deep into the aquifer to create a cranberry pond and not paying Decas for all of the material extracted and sold. The town of Rochester actually enforced the Wetlands Protection Act in connection with this operation — unlike Plymouth and Carver who let these…

Carver: Jan. 25, 2023: Carver Earth Removal Committee extends Johnson Brothers Cranberry, Ryco sand and gravel mining operation to continue indefinitely despite violations, expired permits

Johnson, Ryco claim this is “cranberry agriculture” Operation has been dewatering, mining in the Aquifer Some drone video of this expansive operation here In 2011, federal jury found Johnson violated Clean Water Act by destroying 46 acres of wetlands to allegedly build cranberry bogs Above: Jan. 25, 2023, Carver Earth Removal “public hearing” on Van…

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