A dustup arises
No one is asking the state to close a local family’s garnet mining operation near the Siamese Ponds Wilderness. No one seeks to send 130 Barton Mines workers into unemployment.
But dozens of people are alerting state regulators that they’d like something closer to solitude up in the hills of North River four miles from Gore Mountain. They could do without the constant hum and common dust in their Town of Johnsburg neighborhood near Garnet Hill Lodge and its popular cross-country skiing center.
Since the operators of the sixth-generation mining business petitioned the Adirondack Park Agency in October for a permit amendment to expand its 24/7 operation, property owners are taking the opportunity to complain about their industrial neighbor.
They think there is room for improvement now. And they worry about the future with the drilling and blasting and hauling and piling
