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A lawsuit filed by the city of Willard against the largest company in the town, Conco Quarries, reached a settlement last week and the terms were officially announced at a town meeting Monday night. KSMU's Brett Moser reports.
Mayor Jamie Schoolcraft says rifts between the community and Conco have been ongoing since the company came to Willard over 50 years ago. The lawsuit itself concerned zoning.
Schoolcraft says, "It was over whether they were zoned correctly to be mining on certain pieces of property. When all of this first started, Willard was a very small town and had a lot of trouble with record keeping. Both Conco and the city disputed that and instead of working things out, they sued each other. That stalled any progress at all."
Schoolcraft says that the settlement involves establishing where the company is allowed to mine and states a barrier known as a “birm” must go between private land and the quarry.
Schoolcraft says the details of settlement will hopefully be beneficial for the city of Willard as a whole.
He adds that Conco and Willard are working together to solve the problems of dust and noise from the quarry. Conco is currently developing a proposal to address those issues.
For KSMU News, I’m Brett Moser.
