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hue

(4,949 posts) Thu Mar 12, 2015, 10:51 AM Mar 2015

Vote on Open Pit Mine by Elroy Sparta March 16th

http://wisconsinbikefed.org/2015/03/11/vote-on-open-pit-mine-by-elroy-sparta-march-16th/

Thanks to Eric Zingler, for this update on the proposed open pit mine near the Elroy-Sparta Trail, the nation’s oldest rail trail. Eric is a consultant and writer with a passion for biking who lives on an acreage near the Elroy-Sparta Bike Trail. The permit application will go before the Monroe County Board’s Committee on Sanitation, Planning & Zoning, & Dog Control, March 16th. Click here for the agenda and meeting details. The more people who attend, the better. If you cannot attend, please call or send an email asking the Board to rethink the permit or require a culvert so the dump trucks will not have to cross the trail at the very least.

COMMITTEE: Sanitation, Planning & Zoning, & Dog Control

DATE: March 16, 2015

TIME: 6:00 P.M.

PLACE: Rolling Hills – Auditorium 14345 County Hwy B Sparta, WI 54656,

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Vote on Open Pit Mine by Elroy Sparta March 16th (Original Post) hue Mar 2015 OP

For sand for the North Dakota oil wells. postulater Mar 2015 #1

SO SAD Lefta Dissenter Mar 2015 #2

postulater

(5,075 posts)

1. For sand for the North Dakota oil wells.

Reply to hue (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2015, 01:40 PM

Mar 2015

Aldo is about to rise from his grave.

Lefta Dissenter

(6,622 posts)

2. SO SAD

Reply to hue (Original post)

Thu Mar 12, 2015, 07:39 PM

Mar 2015

Thanks for the links.

The last time I rode my bike was the summer before last on the Elroy-Sparta trail. At mile 22, I was crowded by someone passing me and crashed my bike, breaking my collarbone. I only had to ride another 6 miles to get back to the car, load the bike and then drive to Madison to get to urgent care 10 minutes before they closed.

I've been determined to get back to ride the trail again - with a better outcome, I hope.

I'll send an email tonight. It would be heartbreaking for any part of that trail to be ruined just to satisfy the ever-growing greed of the wealthy few in our beautiful state.

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