(A) All uses shall be established and maintained in accordance with all applicable state statutes.
(B) The Village Council may require the applicant to file a performance bond of sufficient amount to assure completion of the work following excavation, as required by this section.
(C) No fixed machinery shall be erected or maintained within 100 feet of any property or street line.
(D) The use shall be enclosed by a fence or suitable plantings six feet or more in height for the entire periphery of the property.
(E) No slope shall exceed an angle with the horizontal of 45 degrees.
(F) At all stages of operations, pits or quarries shall be completely and continually drained of water when not in use or supervised by a watchman. All slopes and banks shall be graded and treated to prevent erosion or any other potential deterioration.
(G) No building shall be erected on the premises except as temporary shelter for machinery or field
office.
(H) The Village Council shall establish routes for truck movement to and from the site in order to minimize the wear on public streets and to prevent hazards and damage to properties in the village. That portion of access roads within the area of operation shall be provided with a dustless surface.
(I) All installations shall be maintained in a neat, orderly condition so as to prevent injury to property, any individual or the village in general.
(J) Proper measures, as determined by the Village Council, shall be taken to minimize the nuisance of noise and flying dust or rock. Such measures may include limitations upon the practice of stockpiling excavating materials on the site.
(K) When excavation and removal operations are completed, the excavated area shall be graded so that no gradients in disturbed earth shall be steeper than a slope of three to one in horizontal-vertical gradient. A layer of gravel topsoil shall be spread over the excavated areas to minimum depth of four inches in accordance with an approved contour plan furnished by the applicant. The area shall be seeded with a perennial rye grass, or other similar soil-holding material, and maintained by the applicant until the area is stabilized.
(Ord. 160, passed 4-21-2022)