The cement plant operated for more than 80 years -- the limestone quarry has been there more than a century.
"We have the commitment to shut down the cement plant, we have the commitment to stop the quarrying activity and now we can talk about restoring and reclaiming the site, which is 3,500 acres," Simitian said.
"The quarry was also a source of pollution for Permanante Creek. The quarry was discharging selenium into the creek which is a toxin that causes birth defects in wildlife. So the environmental harms were just enormous," Kaufman said. "They've got a proposal in, it's called a Reclamation Plan Amendment that, not only talks about what they're going to do, but equally important talks about how they're going to restore the site when they wrap up their activities on the site, and that's probably going to take a couple of years," Simitian said.
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