There are unpermitted activities in the single cell which appears to be restored. There is no four foot high fence around excavations and open water. The land use as a processing plant for off-site sand may not be a zoned land use. The Taube Road Site is permitted under the concept of extending an existing permit from a non-critical dune area into a critical dune area. The 1994 Sand Dune Mining Regulations permit mining in a critical dune area only when the expansion is from an existing critical dune area into another adjacent critical dune area.
Pit is low.
The permittee appears to be converting the mine to other uses to support other area sand mining operations. These changes in land use justify zoning review and a concern for proper restoration of the previously mined areas as the mine nears the end of its economically useful life. The MDEQ is not enforcing the restoration requirements of the existing mine permit and the 1994 Sand Dune Mining Regulations.