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uring the past year, the 70,000 motorists who pass through Clarke’s Gap each day have been witness to the largest western Loudoun construction project undertaken in two decades. Shirley Contracting Co. crews have been reshaping the landscape along Rt. 7 between Rt. 9 and Leesburg’s eastern boundary as part of a $36.4 million project designed to relieve a major traffic chokepoint. The first benefits of that work should be realized before Labor Day, by which time a third westbound lane is scheduled to open to traffic. Construction is expected to wrap up by October, when two roundabouts at the Rt. 9 interchange will be completed. Over the course of the project, crews will have moved a quarter-million cubic feet of earth, laid 1.6 miles of stormwater pipe,
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ment of Mines, Minerals and Energy were at the quarry May 22 and were to return there this week, agency spokeswoman Tarah Kesterson said. One man was injured by debris from a rock and was stitched up at an area hospital, Kesterson said, and the Loudoun Department of Fire, Rescue & Emergency Management
he Loudoun Quarries made negative headlines last week because of a blasting incident, but a developer is banking on the property generating a lot of good news in the future. No one was seriously injured, but four reports of rocks flying out of the quarry jolted Sterling on May 21, prompting regulatory agencies and emer-
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gency crews to scrutinize the operation. And as if word of large stones falling from the sky weren’t weird enough, the event also made for a strange juxtaposition: It came less than 48 hours after a plan for the Waterside development was presented to the Loudoun County Planning Commission. That proposal calls for filling Loudoun Quarries with water to create a 54-acre lake that would
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he blaster in charge at Loudoun Quarries was issued a notice of violation and blasting was temporarily shut down at the facility after reports of bowling ball-size rocks falling from the sky in Sterling last week. Investigators from the Virginia Depart-
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Westbound vehicles traverse the Rt. 7 construction zone as they climb the mountain just west of Leesburg. By August, there will be an additional lane to help relieve rush-hour logjams.
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