I oppose the Martins Creek Quarry expansion. Myself and my family live on Horns Crossing road in line of sight of the current active workings at Martins Creek Quarry to the East of our property. Whilst we are at work/school obviously the noise from the quarry operations is irrelevant but when we are at home whilst the quarry is operating, eg. Saturday mornings, you are reminded of what some have to put up with all day Monday to Friday. We do not wish any extension to the current operating hours and if one compares these hours with, for instance, the Hunter Quarries at Karuah which is remote to residential housing by comparison it seems ridiculous to allow greater operating hours for a quarry surrounded by a small township and small rural acreages.

Secondly, the basis of this objection stems from the heavy vehicle traffic we are currently contending with and the real possibility of this increasing in magnitude and duration. It is not uncommon to meet trucks on Gostwyck bridge as they travel south from the quarry. I don't blame the drivers, the approach is immediately after a sharp turn and is steep so stopping a fully laden truck and trailer combination must be tricky. The bridge is a single lane, iron construction whith some heritage significance. Regular, high levels of heavy vehicles were clearly not its design brief (there is a semi-permanent work site conducting repairs of some nature on the southern approach).

Finally, Paterson is a small historic village with a road designed in a pre-motor car era. The rail crossing close to Webbers Creek Rd, the right hand bend (when travelling South), the chicane past the Paterson Tavern and Tucker Park are all features incompatible with regular high volumes of heavy traffic. We lived in Paterson village for 12 years and escaping the noise of the trucks was a definite motivation for moving onto acreage further out. Also, traffic is traffic. The fact that a lot of the existing traffic is represented by trucks and trailers just makes it worse. Any increase to this in volume or duration is worrying.

Over and above the points above but perhaps irrelevant from a strict submission response point of view is my cynical view that any conditions imposed will be 1. Adhered to, or 2. Enforced. See current court case between DSC and Daracon.

Dear Sir/Madam
I oppose the Martins Creek Quarry Expansion for the following reasons
Increased truck noise. Living on Belmore Road, Lorn, the trucks are much too loud traveling through this residential area and often travel in the 50 km/h zone much too quick causing a decrease to safety in the area, especially having a young family.
The traffic congestion is also already very busy on the road and will only get worse with the increase in trucks, which will also increase the deterioration of the local roads.
The above factors will cause a decrease in quality of life for my family and will also cause a decrease in my property value and all other properties in the area.

I would like to strongly object to the expansion of Martins Creek Quary. The truck traffic that already slaughters McKimms road is appalling, we live directly in front of the 80kms to 60km sign.
The sound of trucks screaming down the road who NEVER abide by the set speed limit, anytime from 6am to 5pm is not only DANGEROUS but it is completely deafening. The thought of this possibly increasing makes me wish i never bought in the area.

I oppose the Martins Creek Quarry Expansion
Increased flow of truck traffic is of concern to me as I believe it poses a risk to the safety of residents, visitors and motorists.

I oppose the Martins Creek Quarry Expansion.
The proposed increased truck movements through Paterson and on the roads are unsafe. ( 3 broken windscreens already)
Use the rail system (like before you guys sold this asset to Daracon) to transport the gravel to a major transport corridor.

I would like to state that I am strongly opposed to the expansion proposed by Martins Creek Quarry and object to the expansion on any Scale. Daracon has already has a major negativity impact on our lifestyle under their current operations. Everyday we are woken before our natural sleep pattern ends by noise and vibration that by any other industry standard would be considered criminal.Dust and carcinogenic pollution veil our homes and limit our ability to enjoy the quiet tree lined community. Our home is being devalued and our environment traded in for short term profit. Shame on all those involved in this proposition. Unless you are willing to wake up a day in our bed and walk in our shoes you are disgracefully putting profit before communities, family and the environment. There is a rail line that could be perfectly utilised for this company please see sense and enforce this company do the moral, ethical and logical requirement and utilise an existing resource rather than destroying others. We have spent a lot of money trying to find ways to currently cope wth the noise, vibration, dust. and dangerous traffic including window shutters, external blinds, new fencing, hedges,and paying for the whole exterior of our house to be cleaned every 6 months, why must we continue to be financially, spiritually and emotionally impacted, whilst all daracon get to consider is how to make more money!! We are extremely stressed and anxious about the current proposal as we feel we have no options left to stay in the community we love, but cant afford to leave as our house has been devalued too much. Please support us and the beautiful Bolwarra heights that we live in and reject this application entirely.
Thankyou.

My submission is attached.

We oppose the Martins Creek Quarry Expansion. Our main concern is with the increase in trucks on the roads in our area, there early and late movements included, all subjecting noise and when relevant, light pollution. One would have hoped that they were aiming to reduce the numbers of trucks, not vastly increase them. We fear the usual (trick) idea of submitting something so expansive is in the hope that some up-to-half-way compromise will be made and anything (more than current) seen as a win by the applicant.

We have nothing against prosperity and progress, but this is not that, it would be a curse on the people and land in what should be a reasonably rural and peaceful area. The employment opportunities and monetary gain, cannot, in our view, be used as a trade off for the well being of the residents.

We hope rather that better use of the rail service be considered.

My husband and I attended a community meeting in Paterson on November2.The hall was packed,standing room only,with community members from Hinton,Morpeth,Bolwarra,Martins Creek,Wallalong,Woodville and other small villages.There were also representatives from State Planning and Daracon.
The concerns raised were many and heartbtraking.One resident spoke of being woken at 5.45 six days per week by the rumbling of trucks ,the shaking of the house and of the cracks appearing in the walls of her home.That complaint was widespread.Another resident,from Martins Creek,said her son was visiting during a blast at the quarry,and he thought it was an earth quake as ornaments fell from their shelves.
These concerns were from the whole community.Their properties will be worthless.
We came away in disbelief that anyone from State Planning or anyone eise could think that running one truck per minute or 80 trucks per hour through the small village of Paterson,then onto local country roads,which local councils are responsible for is acceptable.
We left the meeting,hoping and wishing that someone is watching and listening.