Save Starved rock ~

“Save Starved Rock ~ Stop the Sand Pit” 

By Pricilla Wallis

Starved Rock State park is located along the historic south bank of the Illinois river. Starved Rock is known for it’s many canyons and host over 2 million tourist a year. It has 2360 acres of natural wildlife, rivers and caves. It was designated as a National historic Landmark in 1960.

Today Starved Rock could be in danger of being subject to pollution because of  sand Mining.  Mississippi sand LLC. is purposing to open  a sand mining operation on 350 acres of farmland just east of Starved Rock. The mine will be right next to Illinois Ottawa and the Kaskaskia canyons.  Sand Mining is becoming an environment issue as  the need for it increases in today’s construction businesses. Sand blasting and dust is know to cause many different type of pollution which effects the local population and wildlife. Sand mining is known to cause air , light, soil, and ground and surface water contaminations. It can destroy the productivity of farmlands which hurts grazing animals as well as noise that scares the wildlife. Sand mining also hurts the land by causing erosion and sinkholes.

Starved rock’s sand is special because it is very hard and round, which works great for “fracturing”. Fracturing is when a company injects chemicals and sand into underground pockets in the earths crust to Hold up the ground for oil and natural gas to escape for extraction. So in this case flat sand does not work, it would just collapse.  This is what makes the sand in Starved Rock work so well because it is round and can hold open the  underground holes.

 Starved rock was formed between 14,000-17,000 years ago by a catastrophic flood that formed this National Historic Landmark. Archeologist have found at least 14 different cave shelters used for humans in many culture periods.. Starved rock shelters Wildlife like games fish such as catfish, white bass, and walleye and has 150 different types of flowers that flourish there. All of this history and wildlife could be damaged by the pollution caused by Sand Mining. 

 Is this sand so important that we will let Mississippi sand LLC. come in and destroy the beauty and History of this State Park?

It is unlikely that the Illinois Department of Natural resources  would approve the permit that LaSalle country zoning board put up for consideration. The LESA that the board reviewed was incomplete and it was later found out  that information was left out. The information was recovered showing that by state law the pollution would be too great to the neighboring farms. The LESA showed the pollution at 209 and in the state of Illinois it can’t be above 200.

A written petition  has already been started by the Illinois Sierra club. They have already gathered over 600 signatures for “Save Starved rock~ stop the sand pits”. You can find this petition online at sierraclub.org 

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This is a list of people in my close Family that has been effected by the greed of the Banks and of Wallstreet. My family didn't get a bail out and they deserved it for working hard their whole lives and being patriots while the world crumbled around them .
1) 2 family members have claimed bankruptcy in the last year.
2) My uncle business of over 20 years foreclosed by Banks.
3) My grandmother losing her SS while my grandpa get improper care in the hospital.
4) My mother and Uncle never being taking care of properly for their mental health issues.
5) my little brother and Little sister unable to find good paying jobs.
6) I've seen first hand of the courts favoring the rich and steal from the poor.
7) my daughters failing education where o tolerance is what our children get and more teachers get laid off.
8) 2 family members with cancer not getting the proper medication.