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.
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.
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.