Daracon have shown show no regard for the community during operations previously.
Knowingly going well over and above what was allowed. Putting extra pressure on already struggling road infrastructure.
The amount of trucks proposed is beyond a joke for a small down of Paterson and the built up areas of Bolwarra.

Please find the attached

Imagine a family of 5, living in the family home. The children attend the local primary school just meters from their home with a nearly built pathway that’s still too dangerous to allow them to walk by themselves! And that’s just for now, you add the exceeding amount of large hauling vehicles to Paterson road and it will cause serious injury.

We witness a large amount of near misses of accidents turning out from Bolwarra road onto Paterson road and from Paterson road into Bolwarra road where cars let alone trucks can safely go around the turning car ... you guessed it holding handfuls of school children. And that’s just the misses! I have helped many people in accidents both when I’m at home and attending through the local RFS.


Our eldest son suffers from bad asthma and we do all the prescribed solutions from our specialists and actively use natural ways of helping him overcome this but the amount of dust and dirt from the hauling trucks is something we can not control.
The air quality will severely impact his and others children’s health!


Not only do we live on the main road currently impacted by high traffic, our home will be inundated by noise, driving issues and our house price!

Please do not make the mistake of allowing this to proceed! Many families, animals, Infrastructure and the quality of life will be affected.

I very strongly object to the project. Please see attachment.

Whilst I do not object to the operation of quarrying on the Martins Creek site I do object most strongly to the proposed annual volume of extraction on the site plus the impact of dust generated from that production and the increased usage of road transport to move the product.
1. Martins Creek quarry has existed in our community for over one hundred years and had not been an issue at the historical rate of extraction and whilst using rail cartage.
The proposed (and more recent last 5-7 years) rate of extraction and transportation from the site is incapable of being handled by the existing road transport infrastructure with particular reference to the crossing of 19th/early 20th Century road bridges which were never designed to handle vehicles of this weight and width along with local traffic. The proposed cartage of heavy loads in articulated vehicles through the right angle and dog-leg bends of the 19th century village of Paterson is an accident just waiting to happen and may very well result in loss-of-life. Paterson village road infrastructure, by virtue of its heritage, is not designed to handle modern multi-axle road transport in the volumes desired by this development. An alternative route must be found or increase the use of the rail corridor to a centralised dump (or dumps) in closer proximity to the market where it would be presumed that better heavy vehicle road infrastructure was already in place (or reinstate the 300,000 ton extraction rate).
Whilst it is obvious that road transport gives the developer greater supply flexibility, and the capital cost is largely born by the transport contractor, it must be incumbent on the developer to seek other solutions than road transport, which will significantly increase the developer's costs and rightly so as the developer is the only party to gain from this exercise.
Paterson village is already experiencing higher traffic volume as the result of increased residential development within Dungog Shire which is unlikely to abate. Adding higher volumes of bulk material transport to the mix is only going to exacerbate this developing issue.
2. Dust generated from quarrying is unavoidable but must be mitigated. Our property is located 5.5Km due south of the quarry and yet the overflow chamber of the rain gauge (still air) collects grey granite-like dust which must be falling from the sky. I presume from the quarry. On a still, clear day a plume of dust can be seen rising from the Martins Creek Quarry.
WH&S are now raising issue with the use of granite bench tops and associated dust generated during the production of these bench tops.
If we're getting quarry dust in the rain gauge then we're breathing it as well.
The existing 300,000 ton extraction limit should be reinstated and policed. We all need the quarry product but there are other sources (some local).

I have been a resident in this area since 1988. The predominant reason for moving into this area was to be able to live, raise my children and eventually retire in a peaceful and environmentally clean/healthy rural environment free of any commercial or industrial activity which produces associated pollution such as excessive noise, traffic congestion, and affected air/water quality. The expansion of the Martins Creek Quarry will impact negatively and profoundly on the most important environmental aspects that constitute my quality of life.

Please see attachment