Hearing mixes support, criticism for Wake Stone quarry near Umstead

Leaders with the town of Knightdale were among those speaking out in defense of a long-planned rock quarry near Umstead State Park. The second half of a public hearing on the proposed rock quarry was held online Tuesday, with regulators from the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality evaluating Knightdale-based Wake Stone Corporation’s plans for land – known as the Odd Fellows tract – along Interstate 40 and adjacent to Umstead State Park. The company is leasing the land, located…