Plans are underway to expand work at the quarry located in the township of Madoc.
The Hastings County Planning and Development Committee received a delegation on the issue at its recent meeting.
The application to the county is to expand what is known as the Chocolate Quarry on the south side of Settlement Road.
Most of the product from the site is big blocks of stone used in landscaping and architecture.
Upper Canada Stone employs 22 people.
President Perry Hartwick says the company ships blocks of limestone around the province and into the United States.
“The permitted tonnage to ship per year will not change. It will remain at 165,000 tons per year. It just will extend the life of the operation.”
Company officials indicated that the expansion area is not in the appropriate designation at this time, or the licence to expand the operation on those lands. So that’s the request in the official plan amendment application, to change the expansion lands to extractive large site as well.
The committee is recommending that county council approve the application.