PLYMOUTH – America’s Hometown is being leveled - thanks to permits allowing the removal of approximately 15.5 million cubic yards of sand and gravel. If you were to spread that activity across ...

Armstrong had proposed removing 425,000 cubic yards of gravel, but reduced it to 355,000 cubic yards for a greater buffer between the surface and the aquifer. Back then, Armstrong said the gravel ...

Present day: A 44-acre “lake” remains after decades of sand and gravel mining at the former Ace Concrete and Acme Concrete pit mine, bordered by Park Road, Thierman Road, Union Pacific ...

After more than seven years of debate and input, it looks like Sand Creek Township residents won the battle against a proposed gravel mine in their borders. Roughly 80 people showed up to the ...

The price of sand and gravel—crucial for concrete and other industrial uses—has climbed from $7.66 per metric ton in 2012 to $12.20 per metric ton in 2023, according to the U.S. Geological ...

For every new home, country club or office building in the Barrington area, a well is dropped into a pocket of water several hundred feet underground. This subterranean lake supplies the Barrington… ...

After more than seven years of debate and input, it looks like Sand Creek Township residents won the battle against a proposed gravel mine in their border. Roughly 80 people showed up at the Scott ...

The aquifer was formed by glaciers millions of years ago when melting ice seeped deep into the ground. The subterranean body of water is actually a mixture of sand and gravel and lies on average ...

BEYOND THE PIPELINE /// Water-pumping Windmills tap into the giant Ogallala Aquifer 50 feet below the surface in Nebraska, where a leading expert says the State Department is "supposed to protect ...

Swedish immigrant Fred E. Backlund, a building contractor, founded Ace Sand and Gravel in the 1920s at 303 N. Park Road. He began selling ready-mixed concrete and changed the name.