Sand plant hearing set for Monday
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By The Chippewa Herald
Monday, October 27, 2008 10:20 AM CDT
A public hearing on a proposed conditional use permit application for a proposed Canadian Sand and Proppant processing facility in Chippewa Falls will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday.
The meeting will be in the city council chambers on the second floor of City Hall, 30 W. Central St.
The city’s Plan Commission is considering the permit request to exceed the city’s maximum building heights in the project on land in the northwest side of the city.
The company needs a conditional use permit because its buildings would exceed the city’s 60-feet height restriction.
Gary Stone, named manager of the proposed plant, previously said the washing plant building would be 88 feet tall, a drying facility 90 feet tall, and storage silos 93 feet. An outdoors stockpile of sand would be up to 70 feet tall.
By comparison, a city water tower is 150 feet tall.
The company plans to mine high quality sand from sites in Chippewa and Barron counties, process it in Chippewa Falls and ship it out by rail. The sand would be used as “frac” sand for fracturing oil and natural gas wells, aiding in their production.
The project is estimated in the $60 million range.
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