Nicole Solfanelli moved back to Factoryville six and a half years ago. She remembers it being a quiet neighborhood. Now, she says a nearby quarry “is ruining” her family’s life.
The Mazzone Falls Quarry is separated by 400 feet from 60 homes on Bunker Hill Road and Concord Avenue in Clinton Township, Wyoming County, according to Richard Dickson, a former member of the Clinton Twp. Planning Commission. The quarry is on two acres of a 110-acre property at 109 Bunker Hill Road.
Residents say the owner, Frank Mazzone, runs jackhammers and other machinery from 7 a.m to 7 p.m. nearly every day. They protested his application for a mineral extraction permit at a conditional use hearing on Sept. 23. The permit will allow blasting at the site…