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Willington Planning & Zoning Commission renews special permits for excavation, quarry and processing sites
Summary
On April 7, 2026 the Willington Planning & Zoning Commission approved one-year renewals for multiple special permits covering excavation at 66 Naval Road (Permit A31515) and quarry and processing facilities, after applicants described testing and water-management protocols for incoming and onsite materials.
Willington pril 7, 2026 t its April 7 meeting the Willington Planning & Zoning Commission granted one-year renewals for several existing special permits covering excavation, quarrying and a stone wash/processing plant.
The commission approved a renewal for Special Permit A31515 (66 Naval Road), identified in the application as owned by W. Williams J. Patton, and renewed permits for sites at 180 Talcott Turnpike, 9 George Drive and 328 Rupee Road. The permit renewals were presented as routine annual renewals with no material changes to operations.
Why it matters: The approvals keep existing extraction and processing operations active while the permit holders continue monitoring and limited reuse activity; commissioners said the renewals preserve the town uthority to require monitoring and to review operations in future years.
What commissioners heard: The operator identified in the record as Wayne described the company pproach to accepting fill and processing material, saying the operation tests all incoming fills and conducts both "residential direct-exposure" and "pollution-mobility" testing. "All the material that's brought in gets tested," Wayne said, describing a protocol of one sample per 250 yards for the first 1,000 yards and additional sampling thereafter. He added that testing began in 2012 and that last year the operation brought in about "30,000 yards" of material.
Wayne also described water-management practices at the processing site: the wash plant uses a series of three ponds where silt settles, staff add a flocculant to help settling and most pond water is recirculated. On testing and compliance he said some parameters require semiannual sampling (pH and zinc) because they have been consistently above benchmark levels in outflow testing; engineers reviewing the submittal reported no immediate problems with the current management approach.
Commission action: For Permit A31515 (PCC 26-5) the commission pproved the one-year renewal after noting no changes since the prior permit; the record shows the chair called the question and the commission verbally recorded "seven" in favor. For the other renewals (PCC 26-1, PCC 26-2, PCC 26-3 and PCC 26-4) commissioners moved and approved one-year renewals with no extended conditions recorded in the transcript.
Financial and operational details: The operator said typical environmental tests cost about $1,500 each; he also said the quarry returned roughly 90,000 cubic yards of material last year at the quarry site and that, at current conservative acceptance rates, filling a long-used pit could take decades (he estimated "30, 30-40 years").
Next steps: The renewals are one-year extensions; the commission will continue to receive monitoring data and the operator said he would forward a final monitoring-well report to staff when it is complete.
