Will dynamite blasting begin inside Wheeler Nature Park to break up 12,000 cubic yards of ledge?
Will a giant machine crush those 12,000 cubic yards into stones on site for the 1000 foot-long road?
Will this blasting and crushing go on for 12 hours a day? For 3 to 12 months? Just to prepare the site to build 32 houses inside Wheeler Nature Park?
Wheeler Nature Park is a hundred-acre city-owned park between Swift Street and Park Road that includes grasslands, shrublands, forest, stream, wetlands, nature trails, the hundred year old Wheeler Farm House, the city's tree nursery, and gardens.
Wheeler Nature Park is habitat for rare birds, fox, and bobcat. They are unlikely to enjoy the blasting and rock crushing in their midst. Even if they stay around, fox and bobcat are unlikely to enjoy having the 7-acre buffet of small prey animals, including mice, voles, and moles, that live in grassland and shrubland provide replaced by 32 houses with their lights, cars, and lawn mowers.
Wheeler Nature Park extends east from Dorset Street between Swift Road and Park Park Road.
If the houses are built, the magnificent view of the Green Mountains from the bike path at Dorset and Park and will forever be obscured.
The Act 250 Hearing is Monday, April 11 at 9am. You can log into the hearing from home or attend in person to listen or speak.
To get an idea what the noise and dust from the rock drilling and dynamite blasting will be like in Wheeler Nature Park click this link to see a ledge blasting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHiv37_O4aE
To get an idea what the noise and dust of a rock crushing machine operating 10 hours a day at that location will be like click this link to see a rock crushing video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBv6A5JI3EY
If you would like to listen or would like to speak at the hearing Monday morning about how the noise of drilling, blasting, rock crushing, and loading countless trucks, will affect you send a note to me and copy John Bossange and the District Coordinator, Rachel Lomonaco.
James Marc Leas: jolly39@gmail.com
John Bossange: johnbossange@gmail.com
Rachel Lomonaco District Coordinator: Rachel.lomonaco@vermont.gov
Just before the hearing begins, at around 9am, Monday, April 11 we will email you the login link and phone information.
Or you can call the District Commission office at 802 879-5614 at 9am Monday to get that link and phone information.
To attend the hearing in person: 111 West Street, Essex Junction, VT 05452
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