As of: February 5, 2024, 7:00 a.m
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Further arousing suspicion in the local council: the operation of the gravel pit on Ahornallee in Warngau, where more than just gravel is mined.
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The gravel pit doesn't leave the Warngau local council in peace.
After there was no response from the district office to a list of questions, the municipality wants to make a new move.
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- The gravel pit in Wolfsläng on Ahornallee next to the B318 has been a source of trouble for the local council for more than ten years.
In response to questions from the committee, Mayor Klaus Thurnhuber (FWG) explained the current status to the local council: At the end of December 2023, approval was granted to excavate 484,000 cubic meters of gravel, limited until August 31, 2026. The recultivation therefore has to take exactly two years be finished later.
However, this did not satisfy the need for clarification in the local council.
A recycling company has been operating on part of the gravel pit for more than ten years.
Since then, the pit has no longer just mined gravel - as was advocated by the community in 2002 - but also broken, sorted and stored building rubble.
The district office granted permission for this without the knowledge of the community, which only found out later.
Since then, their trust in the higher authority and the recycling company has been shaken, to say the least.
The local council most recently postponed the decision on a new structural application for the re-installation of material with a slightly higher pollutant class than before - so-called Z1.2 material - in 2022 and instead asked for more detailed explanation from the district office (we reported).
Gravel pit has been an issue in the local council for many years
The current situation is causing concerns and new dissatisfaction among Reinhard Bücher (Greens).
He recalled that before the tecture application, the local council had decided to end gravel pit operations by the end of 2025.
Now the municipal agreement on the tecture application has probably been replaced by the district office, although the local council had postponed the decision due to the need for clarification.
The list of questions was never answered.
“We had this on the agenda three times, and at no point did the district office feel obliged to answer our questions, not even in writing.” Among others, Max Bauer (FWG) did not entirely share Bücher’s concerns, but found the process but also “mysterious”.
Thurnhuber assured that he would follow up with the district office again.
“It's not possible that you have to say, I believe and I mean - if there is uncertainty, we have to clear it up.” ag
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