Meier’s Ready Mix (Victory Sand & Gravel) has one in-river dredge operation just east of Topeka but operates several pit mines. The have a pit mine just south of Highway 24 and west of NW Rochester in northern Topeka and also have a several pit mines east of Highway 4 and south of Highway 24 in Shawnee County east of Topeka.
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Permit # 200600407 for river miles 77.1 – 78.6
This is the first new in-river dredging permit to be approved in the past 15 years. It is owned by Victory Sand and Gravel (which is owned by Meier’s Ready Mix) and is located just above the Seward Access ramp in east Topeka. Friends of the Kaw wrote and solicited comments opposed to the permitting of this operation. (See Google Map above)
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This suspended permit is located just west of the Hwy 75 Bridge in west Topeka. This permit was owned by Holliday Sand and Gravel and sold to Victory Sand and Gravel (which is owned by Meier’s Ready Mix). The Army Corps of Engineers required Victory Sand and Gravel to leave this location in August of 2006 because of unacceptable degradation to the riverbed (lowering of the bed of more that 2’ in a five year period). If the river agrades (sand settles on the bottom and raises the bed back up) the dredge could return to this location. (See Google Map above)
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Suspended Permit #200301759 for river miles 90.1 – 91.6
This suspended permit is located up river from Kaw River State Park. Kaw River State Park is being developed in west Topeka north of I-70 east of Wanamaker Rd. The Army Corps of Engineers required Meier’s Ready Mix to leave this location in August of 2006 because of unacceptable degradation to the riverbed (lowering of the bed of more that 2’ in a five year period). If the river agrades (sand settles on the bottom and raises the bed back up) the dredge could return to this location. (See Google Map above)
