MARSHALL — This week, Lyon County Commissioners approved some additional conditions on a permit for a gravel pit south of Ghent.

Commissioners voted in favor of a permit with conditions including limits on when the gravel pit could operate, and calling for dust control spray on the road serving the pit.

Lyon County Planning and Zoning Administrator John Biren said Bot Farms, LLC, was seeking a conditional use permit for a gravel pit located in Section 33 of Grandview Township. Biren said the permit would technically be for an established gravel pit plus additional land next to the existing pit.

“There has been an existing gravel pit in this location for many years, known as the Bot pit. They had purchased some land just adjacent to that pit,” Biren said. However, the county did not have a permit on record for the original gravel pit.

“That was common before 2000, that we didn’t record those permits,” Biren said. “So what we decided to do is to have one permit cover the entire area.”

“If you look at it on-site, it looks like one pit,” he said of the two land parcels. The property was located along County Road 76, west of Highway 68, he said.

Biren said a public hearing was held March 10 on a conditional use permit for the gravel pit. Some additional conditions to the permit were being proposed to help address concerns from a neighboring landowner, he said.

“We had the hours of operation from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., and no work on Sunday. And then we strengthened our dust control on the haul roads by specifying chemical dust control,” Biren said.

Biren said the condition calling for chemical dust control treatments on the haul roads was not a standard condition.

“All our gravel roads are dusty in the summertime,” Biren said. “This is case-by-case when it really impacts a close residence.”

Commissioners voted to approve the conditional use permit.