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HomeMy WebLinkAbout04-05P Earth Filling TOWN OF SOUTH WINDSOR PLANNING &ZONING COMMISSION APPLICATION FORM Application No: 6q"-05 P Official Receipt Date: I ,;Z 7 04 DEC 2 9 2003 Receipt No: ._ HJiI ,vtJ 1. _ APPLICANT: KEDe ) RXIGK tiC PROJECT NAME: G-D t*04 AztoG -fN C,-K F h4wr ADDRESS: N 40 Jolt, F rz# bcv0 5oar+*1)wAfa4 OWNER OF RECORD ON LAND RECORDS: ?a(.*)D 9,2v-K �.tiJG ADDRESS: I T 71$ C—00K.! PAt v& �ZD (��� /60 l�ic�j SPORT /'7V COMPLETE LOCATION OF PROPERTY: ASSESSOR'S MAP# PARCEL# 02 ZONE NAME, ADDRESS, TEL& FAX # OF PERSON TO WHOM INQUIRIES SHOULD BE DIRECTED: �i1��K L•�r��7R �DI�da3.7rD6 FAK �3o/),ai3.-667Sr 5T,rA) (pOGLIGK � (��S��— 13/1 FAY- (76D) -XP -r7 Lf B- THIS APPLICATION IS FOR: (Check all that apply): ❑ Zone Change to (Public Hearing required and Certified letter to abutters required) ❑ Subdivision/Resubdivision ❑ Open Space Subdivision (Public Hearing Required) ❑ Subdivision ❑ Minor ❑ Major ❑ Resubdivision (Public Hearing Required) ❑ Minor ❑ Major ❑ Conditional Approval ❑ Special Exception to Article (Public Hearing, Certified letter to abutters required) ❑ Site Plan of Development ❑ General Plan of Development Earth Filling (Sec. 15) and/or Earth Removal (Sec. 14 - Public Hearing Required) ❑ Regulation Amendment ❑ Zoning ❑ Subdivision (Attach proposed amendment) (Public Hearing Required) ❑ Temporary and Conditional Permit for (Public Hearing Required) ❑ Major Home Occupation for (Public Hearing Required) ❑ Other (explain in detail) An Application Pending sign is required to be posted on the property for all applications ten (10) days // prior to being heard by the Commission. /2 _ lJ Signatu a of Applicant gnature of Property Owner Redland Brick, Phases 3 & 4 Earth Removal PH 2/24/04 1. Request for an earth removal permit under Section 14 to extract clay in phases 3 and 4 on Redland Brick property at 1440 John Fitch Blvd, RR zone. The applicant received an earth removal permit in February of 2000,aa4-that permit was vak4*q4i-�F 2. qk- 2. Section 14 allows the Commission to approve removal of earth materials, including clay, after a Public Hearing, in conformance to certain criteria, including: ♦ At the conclusion of the operation or any substantial portion thereof, the whole area where removal takes place must be covered with not less than 4 inches of topsoil and seeded; ♦ Final grades cannot exceed 2:1 slopes; ♦ Except in the Industrial zone, no stone crusher or other machinery not required for actual removal of material is allowed; and ♦ A restoration bond is required. General approval criteria that the Commission can consider include the effect of the removal on surrounding property and the future usefulness of the premises when the operation is completed. The plans reflect that there will be 4 inches of topsoil and seeding over all excavated areas when completed. If the excavated area retains water and takes on pond characteristics, as has happened in previous pits, then pond conditions will be maintained and seeding will be done to the edges of the pond. The plans also reflect finished grades of 2.5 to 1 on all outside edges of the excavation area. A reclamation bond will need to be established at some point, but it does appear that there is still a long excavation period remaining. 3. The permit may be granted for a period not exceeding two years, but there is an extension provision allowing the Commission to grant extensions with or without a public hearing. 4. The applicant is requesting the permit for phases 3 and 4, with minor work (filling to establish a new grade line as shown on previously approved plans) to be done in phases 1 and 2. 5. The site is accessed from Route 5. 6. There are regulated wetlands on the site. The IWA/CC referred this application to their enforcement officer for approval, which is similar to this Commission's in-house staff approval process. The wetlands permit expires on November 1, 2005. If this application is approved, Planning Dept. has no requested approval modifications. dr(A1 I - /rule r p 4- �. 1 Redland Brick Inc. Cushwa Plant - 15718 Clear Spring Road December 29, 2003 P.O. Box 160 ®0� Williamsport, Maryland 21795 (301)223-7700 it I 1 iJ)" , IL (301)223-6675 Fax tii ii 1L I. Mr. Jeffrey Folger Town of South Windsor • _ • Planning and Zoning Commission ' 1540 Sullivan Avenue ■ ; South Windsor, Connecticut 06074 An ESQ 9001:2000 FAX: (860)644-7280 Registered Quality System Re: Redland Brick Inc.- KF Plant, Earth Removal Permit Dear Jeff: Enclosed is our application for the renewal of our Earth Removal Permit. As our existing permit expires at the end of February, we would prefer to be placed on the agenda for the first meeting in February. Our plans are being prepared by Fuss and O'Neil and will be submitted in several weeks. I will mail the application fee in about a week. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, Barry L. Miller Manager- Safety, Environmental, and Quality cc. Stan Goglick, Plant Manager Manufacturer of quality brick products ikoCushwa KF toHarmar toRocky Ridge Redland Brick Inc. Cushwa Plant 15718 Clear Spring Road P.O. Box 160 Williamsport,Maryland 21795 IECEIVE® (301)223-7700 February 25, 2004 LIAR 12004 (301)223-6675 Fax SOUTH UNDSOR PLANNING DEPT, Ms. Marsha Banach An ISO 9001:2000 Town of South Windsor Registered Quality System 1540 Sullivan Avenue South Windsor, CT 06074 Re: App1. 04-05P Earth Removal Permit for Redland Brick Inc. Dear Ms. Banach: We would like to thank the Planning and Zoning Commission for approving our permit application last night. During your analysis of our application to the Planning and Zoning Commission, I believe it was stated that our Wetlands Permit expires November 1, 2005. This is consistent with the letter that is copied on our prior permit maps. But in my files, I have a letter dated January 25, 2000, from Elizabeth A Warren, Inland Wetlands Agency/Conservation Commission Chairperson to our attorney Thomas Cody, that says our permit expires January 19, 2005. Could you please confirm which date is the accurate one? I understand that our permit was approved with the condition that we must submit a restoration plan with associated timeframes with our next permit renewal. We are not opposed to submitting a reclamation plan and have already gone on record that when finished mining, we will put topsoil down and plant appropriate grasses to the water's edge(assuming the pit fills with water). This statement is listed in our Sequence of Operations (item 7) on the existing plans and also on our plans submitted in 2000. Since we are aware that the clay deposits on the property are at least 100 deep, we can conclude that we have not depleted the clay reserves on any section of our property at this time. So any attempts to include timeframes of when we will be finished mining in a particular area will purely be guesses and may be off in terms of decades. There are also several additional comments I would like to make that hopefully will clarify our situation in response to the questions and comments raised in our meeting last night regarding planting and reclamation. When these questions were posed during the meeting and then comments were made about donating the ponds over to the Township, I was somewhat confused as I did not think there were any issues on these subjects. Manufacturer of quality brick products Cushwa KF Harmar Rocky Ridge We need to extract the clay from the ground in order to manufacture brick. Without the clay, it would most likely be cost prohibitive to manufacture brick on the site. Therefore, when we can no longer extract clay on the site we will most likely close the plant. But, we do have a substantial amount of reserves on the property and we expect to be manufacturing brick on that site for many, many years; possibly even up to 100 years. In order to extend the capability of manufacturing at this site to the maximum potential,we are very protective of that clay for obvious reasons. In the last 5 years we have planted grasses on various locations of the property to control erosion and sediment. This was done at the direction and approval of Jeff Folger, and we reported this, on record, with the Inland Wetland Commission. The Township has not requested that we plant any additional areas on the property so we have assumed that we are in compliance. If the Township makes a request that we plant additional areas for erosion and sediment control, we will give it due consideration. But for reasons explained in detail below,we are not interested in planting areas now that one may think is "mined out"if that planting would prevent us from mining that location in the future. We did set aside a section of property, about 5 acres, in a Conservation Easement. On this section of property, it was identified that there are several species of rare and endangered species of sedges. We have a management plan that we follow that will allow the best chance for these sedges to propagate. This management plan is on record as well. These sedges are currently being studied by various wetland experts in the area as well as experts at the University of Connecticut. We have mined on much of our property without excavation permits under prior ownership and the Township allowed us to do this as our plant was essentially "grandfathered" since it is a pre-regulation mine. We know that there is clay on the property at least 100 feet deep. Our employees have told us that the ponds are only 10 to 20 feet deep so there are still adequate clay reserves underneath the water level. So there is some acreage on our property that could be mined further in locations where we have previously mined. We have simply chosen not to mine there at this time for various reasons. Two examples of this are the ponds and the area between the ponds that is currently being leased to East Hartford Sand and Gravel. We stopped mining the clay directly from the ponds when the current plant was built as a new type of grinding plant was built and this new plant would not process the wet clay. In the event we were going to run out of clay, an executive decision would have to be made to determine whether we would install some other type of equipment that would process wet material, determine whether we should dewater the ponds with appropriate permitting, or go out of business at this location. In the area that is leased to East Hartford Sand and Gravel, apparently many years ago, prior plant management used that area to place their discarded brick. We could decide to remove the discarded brick and also mine this area at some time in the future particularly if the alternative was going to be to run out of clay reserves. r Therefore, it must be noted that the decisions to mine in the current areas were made because it makes the most sense to do so at this time but with changes in circumstances it may make better sense to mine elsewhere on the property. So just because we are not mining in a particular area at this time does not suggest that we will not mine there in the future. We do not know of any locations on the property that are void of clay reserves. Consequently, it is premature to consider the possibility of turning the ponds into a park or donating the ponds to the Township at this time. This is a decision that future Redland management will make. I would be happy to discuss these issues with the Commission or you further if requested. Sincerely, Barry L. Miller cc. James P. Vinke, President/CEO-Redland Brick Inc. Stan Goglick, Plant Manager-KF Plant a it 55 March 2,2004 CERTIFIED MAIL Mr. Barry Miller Redland Brick, Inc. 1440 John Fitch Blvd South Windsor, CT 06074 Re: Appl 04-05P, Redland Brick Site Plan Dear Mr. Miller: We are pleased to advise you that the Planning&Zoning Commission voted on February 24, 2004 to approve with modifications the above referenced application for a renewal of an Earth Removal Permit. This approval is for the for earth removal on property located 1440 John Fitch, I Zone as shown on plans prepared by Fuss &O'Neill, Inc., Job No. 76370AI0 dated 8/15/00, as revised. This approval is subject to the following modifications: 1. This permit is valid for a period of two years. The permit expiration date is February 24, 2006. The permit must be renewed prior to expiration if removal operations are to continue. 2. All plans used in the field by the developer must bear the stamp and authorized signature of the Town of South Windsor. 3. A restoration plan with associated timeframes is required with the next permit renewal. Black and white transparent mylars of Sheet#3 with the above modifications, together with three blueprint copies of the entire set of plans must be submitted to this Commission within 30 days to be stamped and signed. The letters of approval of this Commission as well as the Inland Wetlands Agency/Conservation Commission must be reproduced on the mylars. After the mylars have been signed by the Commission, they will be returned to you for filing in the Office of the Town Clerk. After filing these plans, a copy of the receipt must be submitted to the Planning Department. Sincerely, Timothy H. Wentzell, Chairman Planning and Zoning Commission THW/kak cc: Town Engineer, Chief Building Official, Assessor Superintendent of Pollution Control, Fire Marshal