Jaime Green The Wichita Eagle The three or four miles north of the Sedgwick County Zoo, along North Hoover Road, has long been an oddity on the Wichita map – a region of sand pits, landfills and ...

The Douglas County Commission has given tentative approval to a plan for a large sand pit mining operation along the Kansas River, but has required that a survey be conducted first to determine ...

Yet county staff are still pushing the project forward. In recommending the new sand mine ... had one recent problem with mine pit water overflowing into the Kansas River at another site but ...