Maroota Friable Sandstone Extraction Project

There are too much sandstone extractions in the area causing noise pollution aswell as dirty roads, much more dust. The infrastructure in Maroota cattai and areas doest not support that many trucks especially that big. It is super dangerous for others on the roads. The trucks are also destroying our roads as it is

There are already far too many trucks traveling up and down Old Northern Rd. We don’t want anymore. The current trucks drive so fast and recklessly that I often feel unsafe - especially driving to young children. No more trucks!!! Please!!

I live in Pitt town and we have enough large trucks coming through our small town as it is with quarry’s already at Maroota. Our roads are being destroyed, it’s dangerous, they drive erratically, we’ve already had turnovers in our quiet streets.

These types of projects all over my vicinity destroying the fauna and flora natural habitats.
The endless convoys of trucks are destroying our few roads and the constant noise and air pollution are hazardous to our kids and elderly public

I’m objecting to the project
High truck movements
Lack of experience in mining
There is a special snake habitat in this area
That will get impacted
The fact it was crown land and now it’s aboriginal
Claim
The fact
The is major impact to environmental trees
And land
And they only building this facility to sell to the highest bidder

I live in the suburb of Pitt Town. We currently have in excess of 100 sand trucks per day traversing through our suburb to access the already existing sand mines located at Maroota. The suburb of Pitt Town has been earmarked for a bypass for well over 40 years and land has been acquired to facilitate this bypass, yet we are still waiting.
We have small children that walk these streets to get to school, we have the main road travelling alongside our small local shopping centre. Residents are woken at 4.30am from trucks travelling through and using air brakes. Recently a truck's trailer rolled over on a bend in the middle of the suburb and damaged a resident's home.
To add MORE trucks to the roads in this small suburb, to damage people's lives and potentially harm local children, is insane.
If this development was approved under the condition that the bypass be constructed first, I wouldn't have a problem with it, but as it stands, I challenge you to spend a few days in Pitt Town and see for yourself what it is like to live with.

I live on Old Northern Rd at Glenorie. We already experience a huge number of semi-trailers travelling along our road causing hazardous conditions and public safety issues. The road where my house is, is in extremely poor condition with numerous pot holes which only get filled occasionally. This has lead to a extremely bumpy road surface and from 5am in the morning including weekends we start getting unladen semi-trailers travelling to pre-existing Quarries and sand mines making an extremely excessive noise which wakes you up every time a truck comes past. The proposed Sandstone Extraction Project at Maroota will put another 120 trucks on our road which can not support the current level of truck usage. This is going to create a lot of extra traffic through our once peaceful community and needs to be stopped. Our road is not purpose built to take these heavily laden trucks. The road edges are breaking away and as I mentioned before the number of pot holes is mind-blowing. This road was never intended to take this many semi-trailers. The number of semi-trailers coming past our house is already excessive. They speed and cause havoc in our local area and enough is enough. STOP! NO MORE TRUCKS!

There are already too many mines in the local area, with hundreds of trucks on wiseman’s ferry road which is a very narrow, bendy road with truck accidents/flipping of trucks every quarter. The area of maroota and south maroota is part of the rural hills in the hills shire council, where families own large acerage and live here due to the bush land and quiet. From 5am trucks start on the road creating huge noise implications for locals. This combined with trucks tearing down the roads was roads where visibility and safety is already a concern, is extremely dangerous for locals getting kids to and from school. The mines itself are also tearing up precious bush land and national park that has been here for thousands of years and needs to be preserved. We don’t need any local jobs here as we are in sydney where unemployment is low, especially in our area. This proposal needs to be completely reconsider to look at alternative truck routes as Wiseman’s Ferry road and old norther road hasn’t been built for heavy truck transport, with regularly accidents and trucks turning over quarterly.

This will increase the around of heavy vehicle road traffic on our already narrow rural roads. There are 2 quarries in the area and enough trucks on the road as it is.