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County Planners Deny Red Dirt Mine

KUAF | By Jacqueline Froelich,
Kyle Kellams
Published February 15, 2019 at 2:05 PM CST
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More than 80 neighbors of a proposed red dirt mine in rural Washington County turned out for a county planning board meeting to voice their opposition.
J. Froelich

Washington County planners on Thursday denied a conditional use permit for an open-pit dirt mining development in a rural residential district west of Fayetteville.

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Jacqueline Froelich
Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.
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