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Shamrock sold to Vulcan Materials

Jeff Quackenbush, NORTH BAY BUSINESS JOURNAL
Petaluma-based Shamrock Materials, started six decades ago and one of the largest suppliers of concrete and paving materials to North Bay contractors, has been sold to giant Alabama-based construction-materials company.
With Shamrock, Vulcan Materials (NYSE: VMC) picked up concrete, rock, sand and gravel facilities in Sonoma, Napa and Marin counties, company spokeswoman Atisthan Roach said. That includes ready-mix plants in San Rafael, Petaluma, Santa Rosa, Cloverdale and Napa; building-materials sites in Cotati and San Rafael; and a materials depot on Landing Way along the Petaluma River.
The Shamrock deal, signed March 20, was one of three acquisitions in California and Tennessee that Birmingham, Ala.-based Vulcan closed in the first quarter of this year for $185.1 million, according to Roach and regulatory filings. Further financial details weren’t disclosed.
“This acquisition has provided us a way to get into ready-mix right there in California,” Roach said about Shamrock.
Vulcan is the nation’s largest producer of aggregate rock for construction and California’s largest asphalt supplier. The company also is a major player in supplying ready-mixed concrete in Arizona, Georgia, Maryland, New Mexico, Texas, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and the Bahamas.
Read more at: Shamrock Materials sold to Vulcan | The North Bay Business Journal

SuzanneJuly 31, 2014Land Use, Water, Wildlifeendangered species, quarries & gravel, Roblar Road quarry, water pollutionLeave a comment

Disputed Roblar quarry project wins court fight

Angela Hart, PETALUMA ARGUS-COURIER

A state appellate court has handed quarry developer John Barella a resounding victory in his decade-long bid to build a controversial project off Roblar Road west of Cotati.

A three-judge panel has upheld Sonoma County’s 2010 approval of the 65-acre rock quarry and reversed a lower court ruling on all counts, dealing a final blow to opponents’ three-year fight to halt the project on environmental grounds.

Barella, the former owner of North Bay Construction, praised the decision while voicing frustration with the lengthy environmental review and court fight needed to clear the way for his $60 million project.

Planning for the project is set to start this week, and ground work on the site could get underway within a year, said Steve Butler, Barella’s attorney.

via Disputed quarry project wins court fight | Petaluma Argus Courier | Petaluma360.com.

SuzanneMarch 19, 2014Land Usequarries & gravelLeave a comment

Canyon Rock buys Cazedero quarry, concrete plant

Jeff Quackenbush, NORTH BAY BUSINESS JOURNAL

Diamond T Natural Resources, LLC, an affiliate of Forestville-based rock, gravel and concrete supplier Canyon Rock, Inc., on Jan. 31 acquired the 119.5-acre aggregate rock quarry and concrete plant at 600 Austin Creek Rd. in the western Sonoma County community of Cazadero from Bohan & Canelis Austin Creek Ready Mix, Inc., for $2.51 million, according to public records.

Wells Fargo and U.S. Small Business Administration financing conduit TMC Financing provided the 504 program loan involved in the purchase.

Canyon Rock bought Bohan & Canelis’ Cazadero quarry and concrete

The sale didn’t include the Austin Creek Materials concrete plant the Canelis family opened several years ago near Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport. Jim Bohan and Theseus Canelis started the Cazadero quarry in 1946.

Canyon Rock, which operates an eponymous aggregate quarry and River Ready Mix for concrete, plans to keep operations at the Cazadero quarry and plant similar to before but “low key for right now,” according to Wendell Trappe, part of the family that purchased the Canyon Rock quarry in 1972. The Trappes started River Ready Mix in 1975.

via Construction: Canyon Rock buys Cazedero quarry, concrete plant – North Bay Business Journal – North San Francisco Bay Area, Sonoma, Marin, Napa counties – Archive.

SuzanneOctober 3, 2012Waterquarries & gravelLeave a comment

Settlement OK'd ending lawsuit over Russian River gravel mining

Brett Wilkison, THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
Two environmental groups have agreed to drop their lawsuit challenging a large, planned gravel mine in the Russian River in exchange for some near-term reductions in the level of instream mining and more input on annual operations.
via Settlement OK’d ending lawsuit over Russian River gravel mining | PressDemocrat.com.

SuzanneAugust 8, 2012Land UseAgricultural Preservation and Open Space District, endangered species, quarries & gravel, Roblar Road quarryLeave a comment

Sonoma County judge strikes down Roblar Road quarry approval

by Brett Wilkison, THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
A Sonoma County judge has struck down the approval for a controversial rock quarry west of Cotati, saying key parts of the environmental impact report were inadequate. The final ruling, issued Thursday by Judge Elliot Daum, could derail the project by requiring the county and quarry developer John Barella to conduct a new environmental report, or overhaul large parts of the existing one.
via Sonoma County judge strikes down Roblar Road quarry OK | PressDemocrat.com.

SuzanneJune 22, 2012Land Use, WildlifeAgricultural Preservation and Open Space District, quarries & gravel, Roblar Road quarryLeave a comment

Opponents of Roblar Road quarry win round in court

by Brett Wilkison, THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
A Sonoma County judge has sided with key points in a lawsuit challenging approval of the controversial Roblar Road rock quarry, a move that could derail the project west of Cotati.
A split county Board of Supervisors approved the 70-acre project in late 2010 over the objections of a group of neighbors and others concerned about environmental impacts.
via Opponents of Roblar Road quarry win round in court | Petaluma360.

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