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Written by Ernie Quatrani, Correspondent March 26, 2025 A large group of Marlborough residents attended the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's meeting and hearing Monday about the permit modifications requested by Heidelberg Materials, Inc. at the Perkiomenville Quarry. Several attendees raised questions and read statements at the session held in the township's meeting room. During the question and answer portion of the meeting, representatives from the DEP's Pottsville District Mining Office listened to Heidelberg lawyer Stephen Harris explain the German company's desire to increase the mining area by 1.3 acres and to fill the quarry with reclamation material instead of water. Residents and township officials then commented and asked questions of the DEP and Heidelberg representatives before a formal hearing began. Harris, reiterating many of the same arguments he made last spring when he represented Highway Materials – before it was sold to Heidelberg Materials – in its failed bid to expand and change the reclamation agreement, said that mining is permitted by right in the 1.3-acre expansion area. The lawyer stated that Heidelberg has no plans for commercial/industrial use of the property once mining ceases and claimed that reclamation is an active ... PREVIOUS ARTICLES March 19, 2025 March 12, 2025 March 05, 2025 February 27, 2025 February 19, 2025 February 12, 2025 February 05, 2025 January 29, 2025 January 22, 2025 January 15, 2025
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