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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Matthew Kelly

Residents fear lower Hunter is becoming a super quarry for Sydney

A quarry truck on Clarence Town Road, Seaham. Picture by Marina Neil

Residents living in the shadow of the Lower Hunter's burgeoning quarry industry want a strategic plan to control its cumulative impacts.

They say the five operational quarries (Brandy Hill, Boral-Seaham, Martins Creek, Karuah East and Karuah) and five new proposals (Eagleton, Stone Ridge, Deep Creek, Hillview, and Karuah South) within a 15 kilometre radius present increasing risks to community safety, rural amenity and the environment.

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