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EVALUATION OF THE GEOLOGIC, OPERATIONAL, AND MARKET
CONDITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THE ANDERMAN ENTERPRISES SAND AN
GRAVEL MINE IN THE NE 1/4 OF THE NE 114 , SECTION 17 ,
TOWNSHIP 23 NORTH, RANGE 1 WEST, MASON COUNTY, WASHINGTON
Prepared for the Washington State
Attorney General
Olympia, Washington
July 9 , 1990
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SUMMARY OF REASONS WHY THE ANDERMAN SITE HAS NOT
BEEN OPERATED SUCCESSFULLY AS A GRAVEL MINE
1) Geo Recon International estimated that site reserves are
µ . 5 million cubic yards of which 1. 3 million yards represent
uneconomic materials that will have to be put to waste.
_'here is insufficien� roof on the situ for storage of these
waste materials which occur in excessive proportions for a
gravel mine in its geologic environment. Site examination by
Glennda McLucas led to the conclusion that the estimate of
economically mineable materials is at least two times higher
than it would have been if subsurface information with which
to characterize glacial units in terms of their aggregate-
production potential had been available to Geo Recon
geologists . Preparation of an accurate reserve calculation
for the subject site would be extremely difficult without
the benefit of subsurface drill hole stratigraphic logs and
a detailed topographic base map.
2 ) Site materials are inferiortwhen compared to materials
that are being extracted from other mining sites in the
Belfair-to-Bremerton market area. The And e'rman site
za,terials� are excessively dirty and produce 50-to-60 percent
reject material . This is the only site in the area where
basal glacial till is the primary mining unit. While
contained rock appears sound, the existing washing plant
appears incapable of removing silt and clay to the extent
that the drain rock product will meet government
specifications. Service Fuels reportedly had problems
producing specification crushed rock for local paving
project without blending off-site spec materials into the
finished product.
3) %Topography ''is xcessively steep for a site of such
JW-Eed acreage, and drainage patterns in the immediate
vicinity are conducive to sediment-laden *mace run-off.
If materials on the site's hillside were composed of clean
recessional or advance outwash, side-hill excavation would
be more desirable because of the opportunity to let gravity
blend material from the entire vertical sequence. However,
site materials predominantly represent glacial till with so
many contained fines that storm water runoff picks the fines
up in suspension and carries them downhill and off-site onto
neighboring properties. The clay-cemented nature of the
glacial till unit will not allow surface run-off to
percolate back into the ground. Continuous sloughing of the
clayey till provides an on-going source of colloidal
materials for incorporation into storm water that are nearly
impossible to settle out of suspension. Even shut-down of
the 411INWMcn :sight 61ve the - run-off problem, and in
fact the capacity to resolve the problem is very limited.
Further, the low sales volumes of approximately 1, 000
' tons/month ($6, 200 . ) do not generate sufficient income to
justify the costs to Anderman Enterprises, for control of
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Achronic and inevitable turbid storm-water discharges.
Y ; Site acreatj4i is so small and topography so steep that
proper mine -" pJit is extremely difficult given the
fi_-:ished mine slope and property line setback requirements.
Insuffici'At to develop effective storm-water
retention -ponWINUM
r the set up of a full-scale aggregate
p_-jcessin plant. Mine access is excessively steep.
Stockpile area is also limited.
5) While the upper portion of the site previously operated
by Service Fuels was a DOT-approved source for crushed rock,
and materials were used from the site for a State road
construction project in the vicinity, the lower portion of
the site currently operated by Anderman Enterprises has
never been evaluated by the DOT for aggregate quality. As
such, the site is not currently an approved source for
government construction projects. This limits the site
solely to production of aggregates for the local, private
construction market for common fill and some septic drain
field repair that does not require County approval.
6) If the mine were under today's
en ental regulation environment, it would probably not
��oved- for all the reasons cited above, but principally
b causes of inevitabloA t1le
ssively steep terms
7) Insufficient quantities of materials have been removed
from the site to justify the expense associated with its
operation. The mine has not operated profitably since
Anderman Enterprises assumed ownership in 1986 . At the time
the mine was shut down in December, 1989 , the company did
not have any year-round customers or any contracts for
services for its operation. From the foregoing, it is
apparent that the highest and best use for the property is
as something other than a gravel mine (e. g. , residential
development or commercial timber production) .
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REGIONAL GEOLOGY
Proven mineral deposits in the Kitsap Peninsula area have
been insignificant and of little economic value with one
exception. The vast glacial deposits of sand and gravel
found throughout the area are of considerable importance,
and aggregate washing and grading plants are found at
several locations. Andesite and basalt bedrock used for
various purposes is quarried adjacent to the Bremerton-Gorst
highway and at several places in the hills west of
Bremerton.
As illustrated by Figure 3 , Geographic Provinces of the
Kitsap Peninsula, the western upland is separated from the
southern upland by the former glacial-outwash channel which
is now occupied by Union River and Gorst Creek. The
Anderman site occupies the western margin of this outwash
channel .
Vashon outwash is material which was deposited beyond the
ice front by glacial meltwater streams . Near the ice front,
poorly sorted, roughly stratified gravel and coarse sand was
deposited while at greater distances from the glacier front
finer-grained, more evenly stratified sands, silts, and
clays were deposited. Material deposited ahead of the
advancing glacier and subsequently over-ridden by the ice is
termed "advance outwash" (Qva on attached geologic maps) ,
while material deposited during the recession of the glacier
and consequently laid down across the till surface exposed
by the retreating ice is term "recessional outwash" (Qva on
geologic maps) . These two outwash units are usually
separated by the intervening stratum of glacial till (Qvt on
geologic maps) , normally a mixture of gravel and cobbles in
a matrix of clay and silt, laid down as a basal deposit
beneath the moving ice sheet.
Advance Outwash: Advance outwash consists chiefly of
gravels and coarse sands that lie beneath the Vashon till
cap and above the finer sands mapped as Colvos Sand. Many
deposits of advance outwash gravels obscure underlying
materials by forming a thin veneer along valley sides. This
may be the case at the Anderman site where the steep valley
walls have been mapped as Qva, advance outwash (see Figures
4-8 , Geologic Map) . In these areas, it is often necessary
to study drillers' logs to interpret the probable geologic
sequence.
Glacial Till: Till is a primary deposit associated with
each glacial advance. Till is normally a gray to bluish-
gray compact and unsorted mixture of cobbles and pebbles in
a binder of silt and clay. This material was smeared along
the ground by the tremendous pressure produced by the weight
of the ice. This basal deposit of the ice
characteristically forms a capping on the topography over
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which the ice sheet advanced. The normally compact nature
Pk of the glacial till has given to it the local name of
"hardpan" . Observed exposure of Vashon till vary in
thickness from less than a foot to more than 50 feet. The
weight and pressure of the moving ice on underlying
sediments have caused their deformation in some places. In
places marine shells in till have been observed; such
fragments were derived from older underlying sediments of
pre-Vashon age that were picked up by the glacier and
redeposited in the till unit at other locations. Walt Goit
reports the presence of fossils in the till unit on his
site. Vashon till is normally unweathered and fresh in
appearance in most exposures, with no chemical or mechanical
decomposition of individual components, although in places
springs and ground-water seepage have given the till a rusty
oxidation coating, as at the Anderman site.
Vashon till is overlain in some broad upland areas by a few
feet of ablation till - the part of the glacier's rock load
deposited as the ice melted. It is less compact than the
basal till and many of the finer particles of silt and clay
have been washed away by meltwater. Large upland areas,
such as the uplands involving the Anderman site, are
overlain by ablation till deposits of loose, unsorted,
coarse gravel and occasional erratic boulders. The enclosed
photograph of the cutbank at the top of the Anderman site
where Service Fuels mined, illustrates the presence of
ablation till.
Recessional Outwash: Vashon recessional outwash occurs in
the Kitsap Peninsula as a mantle of sand and gravel lying on
the till . In many places these deposits are not
sufficiently thick or extensive to map and have been
included with the Vashon till . The coarse, poorly bedded
recessional outwash gravels are in many places
indistinguishable from the ablation till, and are mapped
with the till on many upland areas.
The Gorst Creek outwash (Qvrs on the geologic map) includes
a deposit of fine-grained, well bedded sand that accumulated
in the Union River-Gorst Creek valley during the waning
stages of the Vashon glaciation. The sand was evidently
deposited under quiet water conditions and covered many
large blocks of Vashon . ice. Subsequent melting of the
glacier fragments resulted in development of kame and kettle
topography, and local slump-deformation of the strata, a
condition that was observed on the Anderman site working
face as illustrated by the enclosed photographs.
Figure 7 represents an aggregate classification map for the
Belfair vicinity, prepared as part of a sand and gravel
source inventory report prepared by McLucas and Associates,
Inc. in 1990 . This map indicates that the Anderman site
represents a Class C site in that economically mineable
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materials are from 10-to-50 feet thick and may be lenticular
in form with resultant rapid horizontal and vertical
variability in consistency. The ratio of sand to gravel
varies in Class C deposits, but usually includes lenses of
undesirable silt and very fine sand. The aggregate within
Class C deposits is generally sound. These sources contain
a minimum volume of 50, 000 cubic yards of fair-to-good
quality sand and gravel, with 16, 000-to-81, 000 cubic yards
per acre unit value. These deposit types are suited only as
sources of good quality roadway fill or structural fill ,
depending upon potential inclusion of silt lenses. They are
not considered viable sources of Portland cement concrete
aggregate.
All of the mines in the Belfair area have been developed in
the upper recessional outwash/ablation unit which averages
20 feet in depth. No other aggregate production operation
besides Anderman Enterprises has mined into the basal
compact glacial till, but has ceased mining operations at
its surface . For example, the exhausted Ace Paving site on
Bear Creek road ceased mining at the surface of the basal
till , and Associated Sand and Gravel stops mining at about
20 feet depth at the surface of the basal till . In the
Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard area, the sand and gravel
mines have stripped the glacial till unit and stockpiled it
on site to use as mine fill during reclamation - none of
these operations have attempted to process the till for its
gravel content because of the additional costs
(approximately $1 . 00/cubic yard) associated with washing out
the excessive silt and clay content, and because of the
additional sediment retention pond requirements. All of
these operations mine the underlying advance outwash unit
which is clean and well graded and capable of producing
specification construction aggregate of all classes.
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ANDERMAN SITE GEOLOGY
Geologic examination of the site by Glennda McLucas,
conducted on June 26th, 1991 revealed the following.
Observations conformed with published literature and the
site geologic description provided in February 1980 by Geo
Recon International . The portions of the site that occur at
highest elevations, where Service Fuels operated their
gravel crushing site, is overlain by an indistinguishable
combination of ablation till and a thin layer of poorly
sorted or stratified recessional outwash sand and gravel, as
illustrated by the enclosed photograph. These uncompact
materials are excessively fine with a minus quarter inch
fraction of 50-to-60 percent.
This surficial unit is underlain by a compact basal glacial
till unit composed of cobble-pebble gravel in a matrix of
clay and silt. This is the unit currently being mined by
Anderman Enterprises . As illustrated by the enclosed
photographs, this material is excessively dirty, containing
at least 50 percent minus quarter inch material. The till
unit contains discontinuous lenses and pods of a brick red
clay/silt cemented pebble conglomerate that represents a
pre-Vashon sedimentary unit (e.g. , the Kitsap Formation or
the Blakely Formation) , both of which are considered
unusable for production of construction aggregate due to the
contained iron-stained, oxidized, deeply weathered gravel
and sand particles. These clasts were obviously scoured out
of their original setting by the glacier, then deposited on
the Anderman site within the till unit. Walt Goit mines an
approximate 30-to-50 foot sequence of the till, blending all
materials prior to screening and washing operations. The
rock contained within the till appears sound and
unweathered, in the main, but isavI y c e with c ay
While a gra i-ng analysis was not avai a e, 1
appears that the till unit contains as much as 20 percent
plus 1 1/2" material. Contained sand is of good quality and
appears to have a good particle size distribution, except
that coarse sand appears largely absent.
Advance outwash may have been exposed in a settling pond
excavated in the south-central portion of the active site
along the main working bench, as illustrated by an enclosed
photograph. While these gravels are below the surface of
the settling pond, and therefore unavailable for
examination, they are probably high quality materials.
Examination of advance outwash units in the region indicate
that these materials are fine-grained with less than 20
percent in the 1-to-2" crushing range. These materials
would be expected to be clean, well sorted, and stratified,
and well suited to the production of Portland cement
concrete aggregate. Substantial quantities of overlying
till material would have to be removed from the surface of
this unit before significant quantities could be extracted.
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Mine-development constraints such as the small area that can
be mined and reclamation side slope requirements, may make
exposure of significant quantities of this unit very
difficult.
Geo Recon's estimate limited excavation depth to an
elevation of 220 feet. Materials that occur below 220 feet
elevation are probably composed of recessional Gorst outwash
sand (Qvrs) , material unsuited to development as
construction aggregate because of extreme fineness and
organic content.
Geo Recon's reserve estimate is for 4 . 5 million cubic yards
of which 1. 3 million cubic yards would be put to waste (30
percent) . The resistivity survey admittedly did not have
the benefit of subsurface information such as a water well
stratigraphic log, or surface exposures, with which to
verify the aggregate quality of glacial units included in
the reserve estimate. On the basis of the June 26th field
examination, I believe reserves of economically mineable
materials is more in the range of 2 . 0 million cubic yards,
or less. Subsurface drilling information is necessary, in
addition to a detailed site topographic base map, in order
to make an accurate reserve calculation, however.
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Recessional outwash: materials deposited by melt-water streams from receding Vashon glacier.
Qvrs: recessional sands, as mapped may include some Colvos sand. Qvr: recessional grovels.
cm-":' Recessional outwash normally lies above water table but where saturated provides small to
moderate quantities of ground water for domestic use.
Till: compact, frequently concrete-like mixture of cobbles and coarse gravel in binder of 21/IW-23M
oclay and silt, from a few feet to 100 Feet in thickness. Normally impermeable and serves _
as aquiclude and as substratum for perched water bodies. As mapped covers many upland 0
areas not otherwise designated; on western parts of western and southern uplands includes I
superglocial till cobbles and grovels. �Ft
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sands with lenses of silt and clay. Usually above water table but where saturated yields I
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O Qc of clay and gravel and basal blue clay. Up to 300 feet thick and is primary aquifer 21�IW-34L ` s
throughout report area where it lies below water table. As mapped may include � I
recessional sand deposits.
Unnamed gravel: Thick sequence of poorly bedded fine to cobbly gravels found in bluffs
along Hood Canal. Primarily rust-stained, with some beds decomposed and some beds I
cemented and conglomeratic. Includes lenses and interbeds of yellowish-brown peat-
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bearing silt. Grovels predominantly of Olympic Mountains derivation, with isolated
reworked granitic pebbles. Sediments believed to be related in age to nonglacial Kitsap o '/
�op`or Formation. Domestic supplies of ground water obtained from shallow drilled wells near ;
o Ok sea level.
Kitsop Formation: horizontally bedded silt and clay with occasional lenses of sand and 20/lw-llc IIl
gravel. Gray with brown weathered surface, contains several distinctive peat-bearing
horizons. As mapped may include basal clays of Colvos sand and clays of Pre-Salmon
Springs(?) deposits, undifferentiated. Normally impermeable and serves as aquiclude. I�
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Solmon Springs(?) Drift: primarily rust-stained, well cemented to open work gravels
s and coarse ands with occasional till. Top usually below sea level, but occasionally
as high as 150 feet above sea level. Usuoliy below water table and yields moderate i
quantities of ground water.
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Pre-Salmon Springs(?) deposits, undifferentiated: chiefly massive to roughly bedded blue
clay, 400 feet and more in thickness. Frequently highly contorted. Contains lenses of s
�Pa'''` sand and grovel, and some till. Deeper and and grovel lenses occasionally yield moder-
ate to large quantities of ground water under flowing artesian conditions, but successful
wells are few. Filuce Bay
Blakeley Formation: marine sandstone, shale and conglomerate, 4,000 to 8,000 feet thick. 20/I W-24F sfi
Yields little or no ground water.
177-7-1-1 Volcanic rocks: sequence of basalt flows, tuffs and agglomerate 3,000 to over 5,000 feet
Tv', thick. Includes local intrusive sills, dikes and bodies of diobase, andesite porphyry and
dacite. Yields little ground water except in local cracks and joints. / I
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FIELD NOTES TAKEN DURING TOUR OF ACTIVE
BREMERTON-SILVERDALE-PORT ORCHARD SAND AND GRAVEL MINES
CONDUCTED ON JUNE 28TH BY DEAN MOERGELI OF
PORT ORCHARD SAND AND GRAVEL COMPANY
1) Port Orchard Sand and Gravel Company
Port Orchard Sand and Gravel Co. (owned by Frank Miles)
mines sand and gravel at the old "Brem Rock" pit, and
supplies Kitsap Ready-mix with aggregate to operate the on-
site concrete ready-mix plant. Miles does not own the land
at the former "Brem-Rock" site, and pays the land owner (a
Mr. Skirving) a $0 . 35/ton royalty. Miles purchased the Brem-
Rock mining company out of bankruptcy court from the Goit
family. The permitted portion of the site encompasses 90
acres and has a remaining life of 5 years. A 12-acre
adjacent site that Port orchard is purchasing/leasing has a
2-year life. Another 5 acres to the northeast, close to the
main road, may be acquired to extend site reserves. The
deposit has an average 20-foot depth. Port Orchard Sand and
Gravel produces drain rock, pea gravel , sand, 7/811 , and
masonry sand. The company does not produce concrete ready-
mix or asphalt, but supplies aggregate to those companies
that do. Miles pays royalties in the market area that range
from $0 . 35-to-0. 56/ton (averaging $0 . 40/cubic yard) .
Miles , Port Orchard Airport gravel mine is 125 acres in
size , of which 30 are permitted. The site has abundant
reserves. The deposit is very consistent throughout its
vertical extent. Vashon advance outwash gravel extends from
the surface to between 30-and-40 feet depth, then materials
grade into a fine sand unit (Colvos sand) that is capped by
ground water. The outwash is a cross-bedded, cut-and-fill
type deposit resulting from a turbulent depositional
environment. Sand is clean, fine, and composed of
approximately 80 percent quartz and quartzite. An 810 "
deep well occurs at the site. Residences have been
constructed on hillside to east of mine from which occupants
can view mining operations . Material is crushed and washed
at this site, but ,no cement or asphalt concrete are batched.
While the Dickey pit at Silverdale is immense and has been
the main source of construction aggregate on the Kitsap
Peninsula for many years, it is an excessively sandy pit
with less than desirable percentages of crushing rock.
Additionally, the property contains great thicknesses of
glacial till that has to be stripped in order to mine the
advance outwash beneath it . The glacial till has not been
processed, but has been stockpiled so that it can be used as
mine backfill , an on-going process . The Dickey pit, which
has an approximate 3-to-5 year life, is close to exhaustion.
Frank Miles, who has owned his side of the deposit since
1978 , produces 0 . 5 million tons/year. Terry Bennett is plant
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manager for the Dickey pit.
Port Orchard's aggregate sales area is from Silverdale
south. In 1990, Port Orchard Sand and Gravel produced a
total of 900 , 000 tons of construction aggregate from all of
its Kitsap County gravel mines. In 1989 , 7501000 tons of
aggregate were produced from these combined mining
operations. The company supplies Fred Hill in Poulsbo and
Silverdale from the Dickey Pit; Kitsap Ready-mix from the
old "Brem Rock" Pit; and supplies Bo Mac and the Fred Hill
Batch plant in Gorst from the Port Orchard Airport pit.
Hours of operation for all pits are between 7 : 30 a.m. and
4 : 00 p.m. , Monday through Friday.
2) Kitsap Ready-Mix (Fred Hill Materials)
Kitsap Ready-Mix is owned by Fred Hill Materials, Inc.
headquartered in Poulsbo . The company has 5 cement concrete
batching plants in Pou _sbo, Silverdale, Port Orchard, and
Port Townsend. Fred Hil ' covers the entire market area with
ready-mix concrete deli% eries, but stays north of Silverdale
with sale of aggregate. Fred Hill has proposed development
of a site at Tea Lake, about 20 miles from Gorst.
Bill Sundahl, Batching Plant No. 4 manager, when asked about
Walt Goit, asked "is he still alive?" He stated that he was
unaware that Goit was operating a mine and aggregate-
processing facility at Belfair.
3) Bo Mac Gravel Company_
Robert Lightfoot owns Bo Mac Gravel Company. Bo Mac is
strictly a ready-mix concrete operation; no rock crushing or
asphalt batching is performed by the company. The company
does not mine its own gravel ; Port Orchard Sand and Gravel
Company supplies Bo Mac with aggregates. Harold Lanning,
the previous owner, no longer operates the company. Frank
Miles bought North Kitsap Ready-Mix from Lanning and sold it
to Bo Mac. Bo Mac has an exhausted 18-acre gravel site
south of the Port Orchard Airport Sand and Gravel Mine where
a ready-mix operation is active. Some stockpiled reject
material is sold out of the site. Port Orchard Sand and
Gravel supplies the aggregate for the ready-mix plant.
4) Morrison Sand and Gravel Company
Morrison Sand and Gravel mines at their site near Port
Orchard (at Detho-Burley exit off S.R. 16) , in Section 23 ,
T. 23 N. , R. 1 E. The local market is so strong for round
rock that Morrison has no incentive to incur the additional
costs of crushing rock, so none is produced at the site. No
ready-mix concrete or asphalt is produced at the site. The
mine is 70 acres in size and close to exhaustion. Bedding
is flat-lying and includes 1-2 foot thick gravel lenses.
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The 211- resource is a very sandy deposit. The gravel unit
occurs as a long ridge of material with its flanks overlain
by fine sand. The company essentially planed off a hill of
gravel to depths varying from 50-to-90 feet. At the base of
the mine they have encountered a fine dense sand (Colvos
Sand?) . Ground water occurs above the sand, and perhaps
clay below the sand. The geology of the site is very similar
to the geology of the Port Orchard Airport site.
This company is Port Orchard Sand and Gravel 's strongest
competitor. The company performs general construction work
as well. Ken Morrison, manager, pays 5% of the wholesale
price of his sales to his family, rather than a royalty. He
stated that the range of royalties paid in the market area
is from $0. 25-0. 50/cubic yard.
Ken Morrison's relationship with Walt Goit is such that he
contends that the two have not spoken for 15 years and
doesn't know anyone else in the industry who will deal with
Goit. He stated that he was unaware that Goit is operating a
gravel mine and aggrega::e-processing facility at Belfair.
5) Ace Paving Company
Dick Cristofferson is the owner of Ace Paving. The company
has operated in the Dickey pit at Silverdale for more than
10 years and produces 100, 000-150 , 000 tons/year from the
mine. Glacial materials are greater than 100 feet thick at
this site, and contain approximately 10% +1 1/211+ crushing
material . The pit holds absolutely vertical walls due to the
presence of high percentages of clay and silt; in spite of
heavy fines content, gravel washes clean. Because no ground
water well exists on the site, the company trucks in water
for gravel washing purposes. Ace Paving has purchased
property all the way out to Dickey Road south of the mine;
this land represents Ace Paving's reserves at the site.
Ace Paving had problems meeting State aggregate quality
specifications at their Bear Creek pit due to low
degradation values and excessive fines The Bear Creek site
is in the same geologic environment as the Anderman mine .
6) Associated Sand and Gravel Company
Associated Sand and Gravel Company operates a gravel mine in
Section 15, T. 23 N. , R. 1 W. two miles north of Belfair on
S .R. 3 . Approximately 15-20 acres of the site is disturbed.
Port Orchard Sand and Gravel was involved with Associated
Sand and Gravel at the Belfair site in the beginning of site
operations (produced crushed rock) when permits were first
obtained, but then the companies split up and Port Orchard
moved out. AS&G pays a $0. 40/ton royalty to Russ Dillinger,
land owner of the Belfair pit. AS&G produced 75, 000 tons in
1990, 50, 000 tons in 1989, and 45, 000 tons in 1988 .
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