A battle is brewing in the small town of Forestville in the Russian River Valley over a proposed project that has become a flashpoint.

The owners of a quarry want to build a modern asphalt plant. But plenty of residents are pushing back, saying they're concerned about potential environmental impacts to the community.

Mining, crushing, and selling rock has been the Trappe family business for decades.

"We take the rock and it goes through a processing plant. And we break it out into everything from base, which is being made here, to rock going to other asphalt plants" said Jonathon Trappe of Canyon Rock Inc.

Trappe now wants to build an asphalt plant on the site of Canyon Rock quarry. With only two asphalt plants currently operating in Sonoma County, it's good for business.

"I feel like

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