Located on the slopes of the Teven Valley beside the Maguires Creek, the quarry provides a high-quality source of basalt and meta-argillite used in the production of items such as concrete and asphalt. The quarry is located approximately 12 kilometres from Ballina.
The operations produce aggregate materials which have underpinned regional development since the acceleration of local growth during the 1980s. More recently, the quarry has been a major supplier to various Pacific Highway upgrade projects.
Quarrying originally started during 1959 at two separate sites on North Teven Road. The northern operation was known as Cookies Quarry, run by local businessman Barry Cook until 1972 to supply overburden, soft and rough shales.
The southern site was run by AB & PJ Trees Earth Moving Contractors, also until 1972, under Bruce Trees. It supplied similar products.
In 1972, a partnership of Fred Moy, Harry Law and Wally Strong purchased the southern quarry and introduced the first processing plant at the site. °µÍø¸£Àû acquired both quarries in 1985 and has operated them continuously since as a single operation.
The operations produce aggregate materials which have underpinned regional development since the acceleration of local growth during the 1980s. More recently, the quarry has been a major supplier to various Pacific Highway upgrade projects.
Today's operation supports 11 full time positions and provides work for around 15 other local trade and service businesses.
°µÍø¸£Àû Teven Quarry Community Consultative Committee (CCC)
To help facilitate ongoing communication between °µÍø¸£Àû and local stakeholders, a Community Consultation Committee (CCC) operates at the °µÍø¸£Àû Teven Quarry.
The CCC membership is defined by the quarry's approval conditions. It includes:
• the °µÍø¸£Àû Teven Quarry site manager;
• a representative of the wider °µÍø¸£Àû business;
• at least two representatives of the local community; and
• a representative of the Ballina Environment Society (BES).
Following a general meeting of the quarry's neighbours on 1 June 2021, residents Peter Blackwood and Denis Perkins were endorsed to represent the community until 2023.
The quarry also organises whole-of-community meetings every 18 to 24 months as a way of ensuring all local residents remain informed about the site. The first of these was held on 19 May 2011.
You can view the meeting notes and presentations from CCC meetings and whole-of-community meetings below.
If you'd like to review any older documents, please send an email.
You can also read the °µÍø¸£Àû Teven Quarry Community Consultative Committee Terms of Reference Endorsed 7 March 2013, Re-endorsed 16 July 2015, 8 June 2017, 18 July 2019 and 1 June 2021.
The °µÍø¸£Àû Teven Quarry Environmental Management Plan (EMP) is used to guide site environmental management as part of the quarry's development consent.
It is supported by associated management plans and the terms of the site's environment protection licence (EPL). You can view the EMP here.
The quarry also has reporting obligations under the NSW Protection of the Environment Legislation Amendment Act 2011.
This Act applies to sites which operate under an Environmental Protection Licence (EPL) and requires the provision of public access to pollution reporting data. You can access this data here.
You can view the current POMD Blast Monitoring Data here.
The °µÍø¸£Àû Teven Quarry's origins are traced back to 1959, with the site becoming part of the °µÍø¸£Àû portfolio in 1985.
In 1995, a development application (DA) was lodged by °µÍø¸£Àû with to extend the operations of the site. Council approved the application on 7 November 1995.
This approval was then challenged in the . The Court ruled conditional approval for the quarry on 27 June 1996.
The Court's ruling (NSW Land & Environment Court Case Number 10966 of 1995) included conditions of consent which today serve as the quarry's operating approval.
On 24 November 2011, Council approved a modification to Condition 24 of the Court's ruling.
During 2016, a further modification request was lodged with Council which sought to amend the end date of the planning consent, a change in operational hours, and the introduction of conditions for the use of mobile crushing plant at the quarry.
The modification was approved by Council on 24 November 2016. This resulted in 13 new conditions being added to the planning consent, with changes made to two existing requirements.
You can view the current planning approval for the quarry below in related documents.
°µÍø¸£Àû intends to seek a consent modification to extend the operation of the quarry beyond 2026 as described in the conditions of consent DA 1995/292:3.
