Pike Industries, Inc. -
Williamstown Quarry

Trudell Consulting Engineers (TCE) began involvement in early 2002 with the development of a proposed Pike Industries crushed rock quarry located off Vermont Route 14, in Williamstown, Vermont. This challenging project entails the development a 30-acre stone quarry, a 900 square foot office/scalehouse/utility building, a processing facility, traffic considerations, and additional landscaping (an 18-foot high berm and additional plantings) to obstruct views of the quarry.

Thirty acres of the 90 acre site will be preserved. The development plan included a provision that no more than five acres will be quarried at any given time, and there will be six, five-acre cells designated for quarrying. The proposed quarry adjacent to three operating municipal sand and gravel pits and is in the vicinity of Barre’s famous Rock of Ages granite quarry. A progressive reclamation system will be used to minimize visual impact. This involves the re-vegetation of each cell as the next cell is opened for use.

TCE has ensured in its site design that much of the 90-acre site will remain wooded and untouched, to maintain an aesthetically pleasing appearance. In addition, vegetative buffers are utilized to diminish noise pollution, and air pollution. Riparian buffers will be utilized along an existing water source, and a water recycling design that discharges clean water off site will manage any stormwater. Recycled stormwater will be used in the quarry’s processing facility.

TCE’s site design also included on-site septic, a water well, settling ponds, haul roads, and improvement of 1,700 feet of roadway from the proposed site to Vermont Route 14. The project was denied by the Act 250 District Commission and ultimately approved by the Environmental Board in July 2005 and should begin construction in the fall. Since 1992, TCE has also provided engineering services for Pike Industries on twelve other Pike existing and proposed facilities or projects in Vermont.