§ 6.6. Extraction of earth products.

(a)

An operations plan and a rehabilitation plan, containing information as required by the town manager, shall be submitted as part of the application for a special use permit.

(b)

All operations associated with the extraction shall conform to the following performance standards:

(1)

Direct illumination resulting from the operation shall not fall upon any land not covered by the application;

(2)

Equivalent sound levels at the boundaries of the extraction site shall not exceed the noise standards contained in chapter 11, article 3 of the Town Code of Ordinances; and

(c)

The permanent roads, defined as those to be used in excess of one year, within the excavation site shall be surfaced with a dust-free material, such as soil cement, bituminous concrete, or Portland Cement concrete.

(d)

Roads other than permanent roads shall be treated with dust inhibitors which will reduce to a minimum the generation of dust from the road surfaces as a result of wind or vehicular action.

(e)

Where the proposed extraction shall take place within three hundred (300) feet of a dwelling, school, church, hospital, commercial or industrial building, public building, or public land, a security fence at least six (6) feet high shall be installed.

(f)

Spoil piles and other accumulations of by-products shall not be created to a height more than thirty-five (35) feet above the original contour and shall be so graded that the vertical slope shall not exceed the material's natural angle of repose.

(g)

The operations plan and the rehabilitation plan shall be coordinated so that the amount of disturbed land is kept to the absolute minimum consonant with good practices and so that rehabilitation proceeds in concert with extraction.