The Planning and Zoning Commission tabled a vote Thursday on a proposed 40-acre quarry off Route 12 in Gales Ferry that residents have said would ruin their health, disturb their neighborhoods and reduce the value of their homes. The commission is next scheduled to meet to discuss and possibly vote on the application Thursday, Feb. 20 at 6 p.m. in the Town Hall Annex. Commission members had expressed skepticism during a series of meetings over the past two months about the quarry application submitted by Gales Ferry Intermodal LLC, a division of Cashman Dredging & Marine Contracting Co. of Quincy, Mass., for a site that once housed a Dow Chemical plant. The company is seeking a special permit that would allow it to blast away large portions of Mount Decatur, where a War of 1812 fort once stood and which GFI promised to protect and help place on the National Register of Historic Places.
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