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• Open Pit Gravel Mines Depress Property Values — FOR MILES! Numerous studies show that this type of mining dramatically depresses property values for miles around. Values drop from 5% as far away as 3-miles and as much as 35% within 1/2–mile!

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• Damaged Property Values Severely Affect Tax Revenues. It only follows that decreased property values lead to a decrease in tax revenues for the township and Livingston County. To address these shortfalls, governments either need to cut back — or increase everyone's tax rates. So even if your property value doesn't fall, you are still negatively affected by the overall value damage!

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• Gravel Mine Would Create  Widely Known Deadly Health Issues  that Would Harm Hundreds of Livingston County Residents. Until recently, few understood the dangers created by crystalline silica dust.   It has  proven links to diseases that lead to death including silicosis, lung cancer,  COPD, renal failure, and kidney disease as well as causing auto-immune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis.

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• Ground water disturbance. What's in the ground? Hundreds, if not thousands, of residents rely on groundwater drawn near the proposed mining site. Mining operations, washing, dust control and digging has the high probability of disturbing an already fragile groundwater source.

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• Traffic Safety the danger gravel truck traffic would most  certainly create is perhaps the most  frightening — as it is also the most deadly. The danger is created by 82 ton gravel trucks slowly pulling out onto Chilson or Brighton Roads. What  is the actual stopping distance of an 82 ton  gravel train with brakes in less than peak condition that is speeding at 55 mph on wet  roads?

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• Noise.  The clamor of a gravel mine includes the  revving of diesel engines from gravel trucks,  bull dozers, crushers, sorters, and other  equipment, the clanging racket of machines at  work, and the daylong annoyance of OSHA  required backup beeping – BEEP BEEP BEEP! This combined with the creation of noxious smells will lead to the loss of property enjoyment.

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Michigan’s gravel statue provides categories of ‘very serious consequences’ (VSQ)  into which all of these concerns can be grouped [MCL § 125.3205 (5) (a) through (f)]. Using broad labels,  these include Existing Land Uses, Environmental Issues, Protection of Property Values, Traffic Safety, and Local  Health, Safety, & Welfare.

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This project will affect Genoa Township, Brighton Township, The City of Brighton, Howell, Hamburg Township, Pinkney and surrounding areas.

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