Cape Cod Aggregates Overview
Soil Board renews permit for Assonet quarry
By Kim Ledoux SOUTH COAST TODAY November 02, 2009 12:00 AM FREETOWN — Over the protests of a group of Freetown and Berkley residents, the Freetown Soil Board has voted to renew for one year a permit held by Cape Cod Aggregates to operate a quarry on Bryant Street. Soil Board Chairman Lawrence N. Ashley […]
Hundreds of Berkley voters shoot down proposed noise ordinance
By Kendra Leigh Sardinha, Staff Writer TAUNTON GAZETTE Posted Nov 09, 2009 @ 11:47 PM Berkley — A proposed noise bylaw was completely blasted out of the water at Monday’s special town meeting held in the gym of the town’s middle school. With a turnout of 500 people, the issue — essentially aimed at the quarry […]
New Bournedale school delights parents, kids
By Paul Gately BOURNE COURIER Posted Jun 18, 2009 @ 09:35 AM BOURNEDALE — Snip! Bourne’s new elementary school was a long time coming. See the video of the grand opening online at wickedlocalbourne.com The ceremonial ribbon cutting event Sunday afternoon was likely the easiest part of the nine-year quest to plan, fund, design, re-design, […]
Air, water quality tested near quarry
By Jeffrey D. Wagner HERALD NEWS Posted Mar 27, 2009 @ 12:28 AM FREETOWN — Cape Cod Aggregates will place seven monitoring wells in Berkley and Freetown to measure groundwater quantity and quality, and will also measure air quality near the Bryant Street quarry operation, the company and Freetown officials said this week. On Monday, Health […]
In Support of CCA: Your View—NIMBY action demonizes quarry
By Michael King SOUTH COAST TODAY Posted on March 14, 2009 @ 12:00AM So the anti-quarry, anti-business NIMBY action continues to escalate in Freetown with regard to Cape Cod Aggregates, more to the point the continued distortions of fact surrounding the operation and the regulations they must meet in order to operate. Open pit mining […]
Blasts pass test in Freetown
By Bill Abramson SOUTH COAST TODAY March 12, 2009 12:00 AM FREETOWN — Selectmen Jean C. Fox of Freetown and Julie Taylor of Berkley reported to the Freetown selectmen this week about test blasts at the Cape Cod Aggregates quarry site on the Freetown-Berkley line. The blasts took place last Friday, and selectmen and Freetown […]