Will have to be trucked in from alternate sources, most likely the Sell a truckload here and there to somebody building a house."īearden says if miners can't take gravel from Crooked Creek, it Mountain Home Concrete, Marion County Sand and Gravel, Monty DavenportĪnd us - then there are another half dozen or so small businesses that "The numbers I've seen in the paper are grosslyĮxaggerated," Bearden says. Hauls from the creek, but says mining on Crooked Creek is not as The largest companies that mine on Crooked Creek, grew up on a farm onīearden wouldn't reveal how much sand and gravel his company Larryīearden of Guy King and Sons in Mountain Home, one of three or four of Smallmouth bass fishing has gone on from generation to generation. Taking gravel from this scenic stream nationally known for its He also says he expects at least one lawsuit over this The process to include Crooked Creek, Wilson says with a smile, could Act 378 will allow the state and counties to remove gravel to Army Corps of Engineers to make implementationĮasier. Wilson says PC&E has drawn mining guidelines almost identical to Scope recreation potential and intangible social values." Resource water is "a combination of the chemical, physical andīiological characteristics of a water body and its watershed, which isĬharacterized by scenic beauty, aesthetics, scientific values, broad We want to amend the regulations."Īccording to PC&E guidelines, the benefit of an extraordinary "Crooked Creek is heavily mined, and it's not an ER "Our principal concern is damage to the stream," Wilson The list of extraordinary resource waters. Wilson says his office will recommend that Crooked Creek be included on What lies ahead is a battle over land and gravel rights that will beįought on the banks of Crooked Creek in Boone and Marion counties. The economic and natural resources of this state." Set up a task force to study "the impact of stream bed mining on We decided we neededĪnother piece of legislation from this year's session, Act 1110, It was obvious what the hell was going on. " went from the Rules Committee to Agri to Public "Some legislators are opposed to stopping the mining," Dowd The legislation amended the Open-Cut Land Reclamation Act to prohibitĬommercial mining in extraordinary resource waters.ĭowd wouldn't name names, but he says it was no accident that "That's when I figured out that Act 378 hadn't beenĭowd responded by sponsoring Senate Bill 418, which became Act 1345. Wasn't navigable and couldn't be controlled," says Dowd,Īdding that the Ouachita is not on the extraordinary resource waters "I reported that incident to Charlieĭaniels, and his office concluded that that portion of the river He had eliminated a good-sized gravel bar. Truck while we were putting in," Dowd says. "A guy came down to the river with a six- to eight-yard dump River last year that spurred him to check on the impact of Act 378. He recalls a canoe trip he and his wife took on the upper Ouachita 17ĭeadline called a "gentlemen's agreement" but says there Wayne Dowd, D-Texarkana, says he has heard the Sept. Wilson says gravel mining, until the passage of Which was designed to end mining on extraordinary resource waters but 17 deadline is based on policy set up by Act 378 in 1993, 17 toĬease and desist from mining gravel and sand in what PC&E designates Larry Wilson, deputy director of the state Department of PollutionĬontrol & Ecology, says mining companies have until Sept. Retrieved from ĭesignation of Crooked Creek Could Close Streamĭrying up lucrative in-stream gravel mining operations in some ofĪrkansas' clearest creeks has turned into a muddy endeavor. APA style: Gravel mining foes dig deep.Gravel mining foes dig deep." Retrieved from MLA style: "Gravel mining foes dig deep." The Free Library.
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