CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 1, 1992 | LEN HALL, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
The Orange County district attorney's office has opened a review of potential code violations by a Rancho Mission Viejo rock quarry that is seeking to triple its operations on land set aside for a future county park. Deputy Dist. Atty. David S. Kirkpatrick, a member of the consumer environmental protection unit, said Friday that he is reviewing documents forwarded to him by the county's Environmental Management Agency.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
January 8, 1992 | LEN HALL and JIM NEWTON
A high-ranking county official has ordered an inspection of a controversial Rancho Mission Viejo rock quarry that is seeking to triple its operations on future county parkland despite a history of permit and code violations. Thomas B. Mathews, planning director for the county's Environmental Management Agency, said he and a special team of investigators will tour the quarry in remote Lucas Canyon on Jan. 15.
NEWS
January 5, 1992 | LEN HALL, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
A rock quarry cited repeatedly for code violations has operated here without required permits for two years, and now its owners want to triple the size of the mine, which could tear up scores of acres earmarked as future parkland. County inspection records show that since 1990, Ortega Rock Quarry Inc. has run an illegal sand and gravel pit that has intruded into county wilderness, contaminated a stream and lined Lucas Canyon with piles of debris.