Item 1: PH on Ordinance Amending Metro Plan (Delta Sand and Gravel)

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material submitted that evening. He said the company could produce 70 pounds of dust particulate per hour and still meet regulations. He said Delta currently emitted 22 pounds ofparticulate per hour. Mr. Cornacchia called attention to the Lane Code requirements for setbacks from aggregate operations. He said setbacks were 150 feet. He said the setbacks could be reduced by the County department head. He said the variances being asked for were for reducing the setbacks to 50 feet near" agricultural land and 100 feet for residential areas. He said the applicant had determined that there was a wetland near the site and said the 150 foot setback would be adhered to near that wetland area. He said the code required two things to grant a variance. The first was compatibility with the surrounding land. He said if the commissions came to the conclusion that the applicant had met the. requirements for significance of the site and minimization of impacts, then the applicant had demonstrated compatibility under the law. The second test was that no flood hazard was created by mining. He noted that the applicant had an engineering report that stated that because the mining was done below ground level there was nothing present to impede flood waters in the area. He .said those two fmdings demonstrated that the criteria had been met for the requested variance. He said for the other variance for installing a low permeability barrier in the setback area the commissions had to decide that the applicant would fill the area with material that was non pollutant and that would not decompose. He "said the company had estimated that the 50 feet requested in the variance contained around the 400,000 tons of aggregate material. Regarding running water, Mr. Cornacchia said the water that flowed through the frrst 15 to 20 feet of depth would not be allowed to run into the pit. He said the low permeability barrier would prevent ~his to ensure that the quarry did not impact ground water users in the area. He noted that all of the residential areas surrounding areas were all connected to public water sources'but acknowledged that some had wells that were not used for domestic purposes. He ~aid the barrier was there to protect groundwater sources. Mr. Cornacchia noted that there was a staff report comment that the coarse .aggregate material fo:und in the analysis met ODOT requirements for use. He said the EGR report also included a statement that the fme aggregate samples did not meet ODOT requirements but noted that this was not injurious to the application. He stressed that the applicant was only required to demonstrate that coarse material met the ODOT.requirements. . Mr. Cornacchia reiterated that Delta had been a good neighl?or in the area for 80 years. He said the application showed that Delta would continue to be a good neighbor into the future. Shane Hughes, EGR and Associates, 2535 Prairie Road, said his company specialized in civil engineering and hydrogeology~ He said he had been licensed to practice civil engineering since 1982. He said he had been working for Delta Sand and Gravel for 13 years and were routinely asked to visit the site and consult with them on similar topics to what was under discussion as the public hearing that evening. He remarked that Delta was a good steward of the land. Mr. Hughe~ said the applicant was required to show that there were 2 million cubic yards of resource that went to a depth of 60 feet in the area descrilJed in the application. He noted that staff had concluded that the quantity/depth criteria had been met. He said he had done a visual examination of an exposed face of aggregate. He said the exposed wall was entire eastern area of the proposed expansion area. He said a visual examination did not show if the aggregate thinned out as one moved west so he went as far west as possible on the site and bored a 80 foot hole and did not find the end of the resource. He added that two more holes had been bored in the middle of the. site with the same result. MINUTES~Lane.County Planning Commission.. Eugene Planning Commission .November 15,2005. Page 4 .