Johnson Sand & Gravel to recyle junk wood at the South Quarry site
February 1, 2010 at :00 PM at city hall
Public Hearing on a Conditional Use Agreement.
Randy Johnson of Johnson Sand and Gravel and Ed Waters of Water's Wood Recycling Services would operate a wood recycling service under contract at the JSG site at 6600 Crowbar Road.
Would allow recycling of construction wood waste, pallets, brush waste, logs, wood chips etc.
Semi Trailers would truck in the materials and stockpile it to accumulate 2500 tons .
Grinding operationswould br 10 hours a day for 4 days per week.
180 truck loads per day on Racine and National Avenues would be required to accumulate the 2500 tons. Some of these loads will be forced to use the Roundabouts on Racine Avenue.
40 to 70 loads of inbound materials and 12 to 20 loads of outbound material will account for the eatimated 180 vehicles per day. This is in addition to the 400 trips per day at present.
Semis would then take the processed wood to Milwaukee where it would be made into Commercial wood pellets fof shipment overseas.
The Conditional Use permit is open ended and could be used for many years to come. and would be effective upon the the granting of the Conditional Use Permit
Hours of operation would be from 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM, 6 days a week.
Question: Why isnt the chipper being located next to the wood processing plant? This would elimate a lot of extra handling and save precious fuel and pollution from runninng the large trucks on our crowded highways.
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If they are going to ship it overseas, then why not process it down by the Port of Milwaukee? There is plenty of empty land there (Solvey Coke comes to mind). And the other question is why are we shipping this renewable energy source overseas?
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I think this blog post is kind of misleading. The facility would stockpile 2500 ton of materiel. I find it highly unlikely they will be trucking in 2500 ton a day which is how the post reads. Another little morsel of information regarding the noise complaint from the grinding. The city owns a grinder as I have seen it going into the recycle center, and already provides this service for residents, sans construction lumber, the city's DPW branches also haul large amounts of brush and garden waste up there, (along with my Christmas tree!) They grind 3 times a week during the spring, fall, and summer. This grinding takes place on the days the recycle center is closed. It also takes place in a much more populated area, as far as I can tell noise from that operation hasn't gotten any complaints. So I can only imagine that this taking place in one of New Berlin's qaurries will be of no noise issue. On a side note "Qaurry park" has come a long way over the past few years, and has a ton of potential!
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I too was curious, so I actually got a tour of Quarry Park in Oct. and the reclaimation is coming along very well.
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About 10 yrs. ago Johnson sold some of his quarry land to New Berlin for a park which Gatzke, mayor at the time of purchase, called a "Jewel of a Park". Purchase price at that time $800,000+ (and costs are now over $1M) with Johnson being required to 'reclaim' this part of their former quarry area for park use.
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What are you talking about ... jobs?... increase property value? You goofy?
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I'd be interested to know how many jobs this might create, and if this might increase the value of the property (resulting in increased property taxes).
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Back to topWISEAK7FAN - Feb 04, 2010 8:05 PM - Report Abuse
theycallmethetruth - Feb 02, 2010 6:32 PM - Report Abuse
BigWI - Feb 02, 2010 9:43 AM - Report Abuse
JSG has lived up to thier end of the bargin quite nicely. There have been some washout problems on some of the hills that required re-seeding of grass but all in all JSG is doing a nice job.
Disclaimer: I have no affiliation what so ever with JSG.
Do to budget constraints the park developement (which is separate from the reclaimation) has been almost non existant.
As for the current proposal, I don't have too much of an opinion on whether it shoud lbe approved or not.
But I doubt the wood chipping would be any noiser or messier then the quarry operation was. I also doubt the traffic would be any worse as it is quite close to the freeway. But I freely admit it is an opinion with no facts to base it on.
A New Berlin Voice - Feb 02, 2010 9:16 AM - Report Abuse
Ten years later and this 'park' is still not available for public use. So, who has not lived up to the reclamation plan? On the face of it, it sounds like Johnson has not. Voice doesn't know this answer.
Ralph, can you get some answers on this Johnson park land reclamation issue before approval of this Johnson conditional use permit approval by council?
joeblow - Feb 01, 2010 8:07 PM - Report Abuse
The issue at hand is one of noise and traffic. Grinding and chipping makes a lot of noise.
53146 - Feb 01, 2010 2:06 PM - Report Abuse
Is that part of the use permit process?