The Harris Quarry Expansion Project
is a proposed asphalt manufacturing plant to be placed on rangeland located at the top of Ridgewood Grade, just south of Willits, CA.
Here's how it will affect YOU.
This project will mean many trucks per hour will be merging on and off Highway 101 during rush hour morning traffic at peak asphalt production times at an already challenging intersection on a mountaintop. Slow moving, heavily loaded asphalt trucks and oil tankers will be crossing Highway 101 and merging with 65-70 mile-per–hour highway traffic. This will create dangerous driving conditions for everyone.
The quarry wants increased production of rock quarried to support the asphalt production. The current rangeland zoning would need to be changed to industrial on 18 acres at the entryway to the Ridgewood Subdivision. And change the whole county zoning code to allow this project to happen, in opposition with the directive of the Mendocino County Plan.
Property values will fall in the surrounding areas, as pollution and fire danger increases.
Because of the weather patterns of the area, the pollutants from this plant will disburse by using the prevailing winds to blow particulate, heavy metal and carcinogenic pollutants to watersheds, over Ridgewood Ranch to Redwood Valley, Potter Valley and Ukiah and to Willits, depending on which way the winds blow on any given day.
Is the location of this project REALLY in the best interest of the people of Mendocino County?
