Hoosier Heartland helps quarry business

DELPHI, Ind. (WLFI) - A Carroll County stone quarry is playing an important part in the Hoosier Heartland construction.

Production would be slow at U.S. Aggregates in Delphi were it not for two major projects it's working on, one of them being the Hoosier Heartland.
"without the Hoosier Heartland and the wind farms and some other projects we would have probably had to just stop production sometime during the summer," said Joe Mayfield.

Sales Manager for U.S. Aggregates in Delphi Joe Mayfield said his company wasn't going to let a major project like the Hoosier Heartland get away.

"We obviously are very close to several phases of the heartland but it's a very competitive environment and we had to be competitive to get the stone on the heartland," said Mayfield.

The company is providing more than 225,000 tons of limestone for a five and a half mile stretch of one of the heartland phases. That amount of stone is keeping workers busy.

"This year with the recession without the wind farms or without the Hoosier Heartland we would be substantially down in tonnage," said Mayfield. "We think it's going to be very beneficial to Delphi and Carroll County."

Construction starts in 2010. The limestone will be used for ready-mix concrete for the roads pavement.