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10/19/23 UPDATE: Jack Pease will be bringing the McHenry pit (as well as Spring Grove and a Woodstock pit expansion) to County. 10/17/23 NW Herald Article

HELP STOP THE MCHENRY GRAVEL PIT/CONCRETE RECYCLING PLANT!!

KEEP GRAVEL PITS AND ASPHALT/CONCRETE RECYCLING PLANTS OUT OF OUR LONG-ESTABLISHED RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS. Your neighborhood may be next... 

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This specific pit will have a DIRECT IMPACT on residents of Val Mar Estates, Stilling Woods, and Eastwood Manor, among others. This project should also be of interest to families of McHenry Middle School and Hilltop Elementary and anyone traveling on Route 120 in McHenry.

Click here to contact McHenry's Mayor and City Council.

Let them know a potentially poisonous gravel pit is not what this city needs.

Let them know McHenry residents do not want an additional 1,200 trucks a month forcing left hand turns onto Route 120.

We need to set a precedent for residential areas across Northern Illinois.

THE PIT DOESN'T FIT.

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The “Joys” of Living Next to a Gravel Pit

1. Silica Dust (a known carcinogen)

The process for mining gravel, and operating a concrete recycling plant, both create an airborne substance known as Silica Dust that causes an incurable disease known as Silicosis. When you inhale Silica Dust, each particle 100 times smaller than a grain of sand, it remains in your lungs… forever. Even if you never develop cancer, your lungs will form scar tissue around the Silica Dust particles. This reduces your lung capacity. With repeated exposure, you may eventually develop Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, which is disabling and can be fatal. Silica Dust can remain airborne up to three miles from the source. McHenry Middle School and Hilltop Elementary will be exposed to the Silica Dust, as well.

2. The Noise

You will hear the loud clanging of the conveyor belts and the banging and screeching from the rock crushers 14 hours a day, six days a week. The “picking up and shipping of materials and maintenance” will occur from 5:00am-8:00pm. If you are retired and thought you would finally be able to sleep late, forget about it! You will be getting your 5 or 6 a.m. wakeup call every morning. Do you like fresh air? You’ll be forced to choose between getting fresh air and closing the windows and doors to reduce the noise. The incessant noise can make you feel like a hostage in your own home, trapped by forces over which you have no control.

3. Threats to our Private Wells

The mining operation will strip away all the soil layers that normally filter out contaminants before they reach the ground water. Mining will eventually be performed below the ground water level and the so-called “lakes” will be created. At this point there will be contamination risks for our wells from multiple sources. McHenry County recommends that we have our wells tested for contamination at least once a year (at our expense). If your well becomes contaminated, the remedy will depend on the type of contamination. In a best-case scenario, you may be looking at expensive filtration systems. In a worst case, your well water will be useless.

4. Will I Be Able to Sell My House?

The marketability for your house will decrease, since few people will choose to voluntarily move in next to a gravel pit… Unless, of course, the price has been reduced to a level they can’t resist. Do you want to be put in a position where you stand to lose tens of thousands of dollars? On the flip side of this issue, the tax assessor will continue to assess your house at the normal market value, completely ignoring the fact that you have a gravel pit next to your backyard. This is a lose-lose situation. 

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Not one existing Super Aggregates site is in a residential neighborhood. Why start now?

Find more information at www.nomchenrypit.com. 

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