Quarrying may be conducted only from Monday through Friday between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. and on Saturday between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., prevailing time, except:
A. 
Quarrying shall not be conducted for a period in excess of nine gross hours per day.
B. 
No quarrying shall be conducted on Sundays except for emergency equipment maintenance upon prior notice to the Borough Engineer or, if unavailable, to the Police Department. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to prevent the emergency maintenance or repairs of equipment.
A. 
All drilling must be done by using the best available technology available to reduce or eliminate dust.
B. 
All roads or traveled rights-of-way within the licensed premises must be treated with calcium chloride or water or equivalent substitute in order to reduce the accumulation and dissemination of dust as directed Borough Engineer. Calcium chloride or water or equivalent substitute must be applied at lease once every 10 days during quarrying operations or more frequently if required by the Borough Engineer. If the foregoing procedures are not the best available technology, then the best available technology shall be substituted therefor.
C. 
Subject to the other requirements of this chapter, all crushing and processing of quarry materials shall be conducted by the use of wet method of dust control or by local exhaust systems of equivalent effectiveness.
A. 
No quarrying shall be permitted which will reduce the quarried area below the lowest grade established as reference points by the Planning/Land Use Board and marked by permanent bench marks. No quarrying shall be permitted below the highest level of groundwater as measured at any point on the property. Quarrying is not be permitted which will endanger the lateral support of abutting properties. In the event quarrying or excavation should result in face slopes in excess of 45°, a minimum leveled (or natural) buffer area of 50 feet shall be provided between any quarry boundary lines and the commencement of said slope.
[Amended 2-19-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-1]
B. 
No quarrying shall be permitted within a distance of 50 feet measured on a horizontal plane of any quarry boundary line which abuts a residential area or park area.
C. 
While the settlement agreement is in force, the provisions in the settlement agreement pertaining to grade requirements shall determine the grade requirements for any parties affected thereby.
[Added 8-11-2003 by Ord. No. 2003-7]
In no case shall any quarry products, equipment or other materials be deposited or stored on any property, public or private, other than the licensed premises. No buildings, equipment, quarry products or other materials shall be erected or stored within a distance of 100 feet of any quarry boundary line.
A stockade, chain-link or existing fence of a minimum height of six feet shall be erected and maintained in sound conditions around the perimeter of the area being quarried and that has been quarried, and all means of ingress and egress shall be controlled by substantial gates of similar height, which gates shall be closed and securely locked when not in actual use. Reasonable variations of fence alignment may be made in order to accommodate existing natural features and terrain, thereby making erection of the fence practicable within the boundary lines of the quarry premises.
A. 
Blasting and the use of explosives shall be in conformity with the New Jersey statutes and regulations and federal regulations where applicable. The licensee shall make available for inspection by the Borough Engineer copies of all blasting information that is submitted by it to the New Jersey Department of Labor Mine Safety Section.
[Amended 8-11-2003 by Ord. No. 2003-7]
B. 
On each occasion when blasting is to be conducted, written or verbal notice shall be conveyed to the office of the Borough Clerk at least two hours prior to the proposed detonation unless prevailing provisions make it impossible, but in no case less than 1/2 hour. Additionally, all residents within 500 feet of any property line of any land owned by the applicant and who request the same, in writing, shall be notified verbally at least 1/2 hour prior to the proposed detonation. All blasting shall be limited to the hours between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Such blasting shall conform to the requirements and regulations of the State of New Jersey.
(1) 
A copy of any written claims of damage due to blasting shall be filed with the Borough Clerk within 10 days of receipt along with the result of the inspection of those claims within 30 days of the date of the claim.
(2) 
The applicant or the state shall monitor each blast with seismographic equipment and records for the monitoring of each blast shall be made available to the Borough Engineer.
(3) 
The license holder shall cause any claim by any property owner of damage as a result of blasting to be investigated within 48 hours of the claim being made. If the property owner and the license holder agree the license holder shall either repair the damage or compensate the property owner for the damage. If no agreement is reached then the property owner may pursue any claims it has against license holder in accordance with law.
Signs shall be maintained at all entrances or exits of the quarried premises, indicating the name and address of the licensee and that the business being conducted is a licensed quarry operation. Signs shall also be placed at no greater than 200-foot intervals on the perimeter fence warning of the potential hazard of climbing the fence. The operator shall be excused from complying with this chapter if abutting landowners deny it permission to erect said signs.
Where conveyors discharge material of less than one inch in diameter onto stockpiles of such material and where the free and uncontained fall of material being stockpiled from the conveyor to the highest point of the stockpile shall exceed a distance of six feet, a high-pressure water-mist spray must be directed onto the material as it falls from the conveyor to the stockpile in such manner as to reduce the accumulation and dissemination of dust. Nothing contained in this section shall diminish the obligation of the quarry operator to reduce dust emissions by using the best available technology.
Wherever the licensed premises abuts a public street, residential or park area, a solid continuous landscape screen shall be planted and maintained. The landscaping shall consist of massed evergreen and deciduous trees and shrubs of such species or density as will provide a solid and continuous screen throughout the full course of the year. This section shall not apply where the natural contours of the land provide adequate visual screening so that a person of average height traversing said street or adjacent residential property would not be able to see the quarry operation.
[Amended 8-11-2003 by Ord. No. 2003-7]
Provisions shall be made to control stormwater runoff, quality and quantity, soil erosion and sediment control, point and nonpoint source water pollution, in accordance with regulations and best management standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency and New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, during quarrying operations and after the termination of same.
Provisions shall be made for the prompt removal from the streets of Prospect Park of any debris which has either fallen from any truck removing material from the quarry site or has been washed out of the quarry either as a result of natural events or quarry operation.
The maximum amount of noise emanating from any quarry audible along any boundary line of the quarry shall not exceed the noise standards as set forth in the most restrictive of state regulation or local ordinance.
Airborne discharges from the blacktop plant shall comply with the more restrictive standard of either the Board of Health or the State of New Jersey.
From the date this chapter is effective, no topsoil shall be removed from the premises. Where topsoil has previously been removed, provisions shall be made for setting aside and retention on the premises sufficient arable soil to be distributed over the premises to a depth capable of supporting vegetation.
Where a more restrictive regulation is not imposed by this chapter, the standards established by the State of New Jersey shall apply.