{"id":148234,"date":"2026-03-25T17:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148234\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T17:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:40:09","slug":"hercules-cement-will-not-deepen-stockertown-quarry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148234\/","title":{"rendered":"Hercules Cement will not deepen Stockertown quarry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buzzi Unicem said Tuesday that Hercules Cement Co. will not deepen the east end of its quarry just outside Stockertown.<\/p>\n

The company said it took the action \u201cfollowing extensive engagement\u201d with the state Department of Environmental Protection and the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the past few years, the company has worked closely with PADEP and PAFBC to evaluate the proposed project and address technical and environmental considerations,\u201d Bethlehem-based Buzzi Unicem said in a statement. \u201cWhile these discussions have been constructive, the company has determined that it is appropriate at this time to withdraw the application while continuing to explore different alternative long-term options.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company said it has made \u201csignificant investments\u201d at the Stockertown quarry, including a state-of-the-art pumping system and backup power generation capabilities to support operations during power outages.<\/p>\n

The pumping system is essential to quarry operations and discharges quarry in-flow water that supplements the naturally intermittent flow of water in the adjacent Bushkill Creek<\/p>\n

Thousands of fish were killed in June 2020<\/a> when a lightning strike damaged pumps at the Hercules Cement Plant, knocking out water supply to a significant portion of the Bushkill Creek in Tatamy. A 2-mile section of the creek was completely dry while an area further south had hardly any water.<\/p>\n

Buzzi Unicem said withdrawal of the permit application will not affect current operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buzzi Unicem said Tuesday that Hercules Cement Co. will not deepen the east end of its quarry just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,60,6290,182,139,434,2182,28,44123,432,20340],"class_list":["post-148234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-business","tag-easton-area","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-palmer-township","tag-pennsylvania","tag-stockertown","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-upper-nazareth-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}