Monaro Rock’s proposed quarry

  • A hard rock quarry with a 30 year lifetime. A concrete recycling plant. An asphalt production facility.

    Located in a conservation zone home to endangered flora and fauna such as box gum grassy woodland.

    Within 5km of 31,000 residents of the ACT and NSW.

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  • Up to one million tonnes per annum. Up to 200 fully laden trucks entering the Monaro Highway. Operating up to six and a half days a week.

    Clearing 22 hectares of endangered box gum grassy woodland and 78 hectares overall.

    Operating for 30 years.

    Generating profits for two families, but potentially impacting tens of thousands.

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    Traffic: potentially impacting commuters entering the Monaro Highway

    Dust, blasting, noise: potentially impacting households in the ACT and NSW.

    Biodiversity: potentially impacting endangered fauna and flora

  • Residents in the ACT suburbs of Theodore, Richardson, Calwell, Chisholm and Gilmore

    Residents in the NSW areas of Royalla, Googong, Fernleigh, Mt Pleasant, Jerrabomberra, Little Burra, Burra

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The Monaro Rock Quarry

Monaro Rock is a joint venture between Monaro Mix and Pacific Formwork to build and operate a quarry in Royalla, NSW.

Operating up to 12 hours a day, six days a week, this quarry will extract up to 1,000,000 tonnes of rock annually.

Onsite asphalt production and concrete recycling

Monaro Rock plan to crush up to 20,000 tonnes of concrete and produce up to 150,000 tonnes of asphalt on site

Close to residents in NSW and ACT

31,000 ACT and NSW residents live within five kilometres of the site. 92,000 residents live within ten kilometres.

The nearest Royalla residents are only 1.6km away. ACT residents are only 2.6km away.

Silica dust and noise can travel further than this in all directions.

Impacts

  • Map showing zoning of the site

    Zoning

    The site is zoned C2 (Environmental Conservation) and RU2 (Rural Landscape). Both prohibit this development, which goes directly against the objectives of the zone.

  • Silica dust

    Hard rock quarries create silica dust. More and more evidence is coming to light of the long term health impacts of exposure to silica dust.

  • Biodiversity

    Biodiversity

    The quarry will clear 22 hectares of critically endangered box-gum grassy woodland and 78 hectares of vegetation overall. The proposed site is home to over 300 species of flora and fauna.

  • Traffic

    Up to two hundred fully laden trucks per day will be entering onto the Monaro Highway or Old Cooma Road.

    There is already enough risk on our roads without more heavy trucks trying to merge onto highways and roads. Slow moving trucks will likely increase your commute time.

  • Blasting and crushing

    Blasting from quarries can be felt in homes kilometres away, scare livestock and horses, and cause cracks in walls and windows.

    Long hours of crushing noises that could travel to residents.

  • Electricity

    Quarries require lots of electricity, but no increase in supply is planned. Residents in Royalla already suffer large voltage swings and damage to sensitive pumps and other equipment.

  • Groundwater

    The quarry plans to use groundwater. Residents are concerned that this will impact the water table levels and may cause some bores to run dry.

  • Water runoff

    Waste water from the quarry will discharge into Tuggeranong Creek and then flow though Tuggeranong suburbs to Lake Tuggeranong.