Johnson Sand & Gravel to recyle junk wood at the South Quarry site

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).
Is that part of the use permit process?

What are you talking about ... jobs?... increase property value? You goofy?

The issue at hand is one of noise and traffic. Grinding and chipping makes a lot of noise.

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.

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?

I too was curious, so I actually got a tour of Quarry Park in Oct. and the reclaimation is coming along very well.

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.

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!

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?