Public Forum with CCA

CCA gave a presentation to the public on Tuesday, April 13th at the Berkley Community School. David Peterson from CCA showed a power point presentation on items that aggregates are used for. There was no new information in the presentation, nothing that has not been stated to the public previously or that is not on their web site. The newspaper announcement of the presentation promised that CCA would discuss the Freetown quarry operation, however there was no information presented about the Freetown operation or any plans for a Berkley proposal. When asked by residents to get to pertenant information about the company's operations and plans in Berkley/Freetown David Peterson said the meeting was for those people who did not know what aggragetes were. However, CCA called and invited direct abutters to attend.

A room full of Berkley and Freetown residents expressed their dissatisfaction with experiencing their homes shake, their animals become nervous and agitated, the loud sound of the explosions and constant noise from the site. Several residents were also greatly concerned about their properties becoming "unsellable" because of now being located near a quarry. Dave Peterson said he had no intentions of buying any homes to enable residents to leave. When residents complained that their homes shake he said unsympathetically, "They are going to." When people complained about animals becoming nervous and upset for days following each blast, David Pertson said again, "They are going to. Animals feel more of the ground vibration then humans do. They are more sensitive to it." He offered no remedies. Several times during the meeting David Peterson had no answers for resident questions.

After the meeting one direct abutter said, "I can't believe they think they can just come into our neighborhood and destroy our quality of life, affect our homes and think that we are just suppose to sit here and take it."