Friday, January
11
John Fellows :
- Columbia city planner
- Pedestrian and bicycle master plan
development
Richard Giles :
- owner of 701 Waley
- connections, influences – very important
- History of building and community
o Mill Store 1903
o 1907-8 turned into community center
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family
and together time in a closed environment
o 1918 – Pool added. 1925 became the “Y”
o Olympia community was economically self
contained as a commercial untity
o Richard’s goal : maintain public space
with intensive space
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Loft,
live/work, studio
Bob Guilds
- Interested in self sustaining community
revitalization
- Human relationships are important
o Drive progress/retreat
- Mill community is well connected socially
- Mills sat vacant for awhile
o Civil, social etc activities within
walking distance
- Properties were neglected, and are not
trying to be revitalized.
- Historical fabric is super important to
the community
- Access road to quarry used to go through
neighborhood and create a lot of pollution. Moved to an access road along the
river.
- Books : “Olympia Pacific – The way we
were” “Lint Heads”
Quarry Tour –
Bob Johnson
Quarry
used to be used for dimensional stone.
Stopped due to color inconsistency.
Originally
owned by Palmetto
Largest
Vulcan Quarry
Quarry
is on fall line; where granite stops and limestone, sandstone begins
Reclamation
plan : let water rise to a certain level?
-houses,
with lake inlet from river?
-
golf course?
-
water run off goes right to quarry
-
rocky branch acts as a giant storm drain
-how
to clean up rocky branch?
Process :
- strip dirt. Either kept, discarded, or sold
- drilling and blasting
o done in steps
o blasting done with emulsion. Dynamite is an old process
- loading and hauling
o sent to crushing station
o jaw crusher
o jaretory
o 1,000 tons an hour
- sent to secondary crusher
o cone crusher
o sent to screener
- tertiary crusher when necessary
- Piles over tunnels. Size ranges from 2”
to sand
- Stone is washed and cleaned and loaded
into bins – trucks go in and out super quick. 25 ton trucks loaded in a minute or two.
Wash Plant
- rock is put on screen to spray off.
- Water is processed to be cleaned up
o Water is “flocked” process of adding
chemical to cause silt to sink to bottom of water
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