The quarry project involves two separate development applications (DA) before council – an extraction pit located on ‘Illoura’ property, and a processing area located on ‘Killarney’.

Both properties are located on Hill End Road at Sallys Flat.

The DA shows that the quarry would be for the approved Crudine Ridge Wind Farm Project (CRWFP).

“Key features … include the extraction, processing, stockpiling and transport of up to 30,000 cubic metres per annum of material from the Project area, for use in construction of the wind tower footings,” the DA states.

“The extraction pit and processing area, will have a total disturbance area of up to two hectares.

“Operations will be undertaken during daytime hours and will be completed within six months from the commencement of extraction.”

The DA states that having a quarry in Sallys Flat, rather than Kandos, would reduce the truck movements from 10,500 to 5250.

“The nearest, viable external supplier of aggregates material for the CRWFP is located at Kandos, approximately 75 kilometres from the southern entry point of the CRWFP area,” it states.

Sallys Flat grazier Geoff Rayner said while the approval of the wind farm did cause some angst in the local community, he supported the decision to have the quarry near the CRWFP rather than at Kandos.

“That would cause, in my mind, an absolute pandemonium,” he said of high number trucks coming to and from Kandos.

Having the extraction pit and processing areas in Sallys Flat would mean that trucks would only be travelling approximately 1km in either direction.

“It’s the most feasible thing rather than coming from Kandos,” Mr Rayner said.

He said the owners of the Killarney and Illoura properties had been in the region for many years and they had the best interests of the land at heart.