The quarry has been in Schoharie for a long time. Why make a big deal about the expansion?
A. Well, yes. A quarry has been in Schoharie for 100 years. But that quarry was not the current quarry. Aerial photographs as late as the 1940s show just a small quarry along Eastern Avenue behind the school property. The quarried area expanded considerably through the 20th century, culminating with a doubling to tripling in size when Rickard Hill Road was relocated in the 1990s. The activity of the current quarry is significantly greater than that of the quarry of the 1940s in terms of visual, noise, dust and traffic impacts.
