Planning and Zoning Commission hosting public forums for input on industrial sand mining

The Allamakee County Planning and Zoning Commission is holding a series of public forums to encourage and facilitate citizen input regarding industrial sand mining and its related impacts. The forums will include presentations and round table discussions intended to generate public input regarding the scheduled topic and the type and manner of regulations deemed necessary, if any.
The forums will be held in the Farmers and Merchants Savings Bank Community Room, located at 201 Main Street in Waukon, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. The forum dates and topics began with an August 26 forum on Water Quality and Quantity and will further include the following:
September 10 - Economic and Social Impacts
September 17 - Roads and Dust Control
October 8 - Setbacks to surrounding Uses
October 15 - Noise and other Nuisance Conditions.