Proposed Plan For A Sand Quarry On Sacred Native American Land In Gilroy Sparks A Culture Clash

CBS San Francisco

August 25, 2022

The battle is heating up over a controversial plan to locate a sand quarry on sacred Native American tribal land in Santa Clara County.

All sides will get a chance to speak out on Thursday. It's shaping up as a clash between cultures that spans hundreds, if not thousands of years.

Some hills, just off Highway 101 south of Gilroy, contain a large deposit of high-quality sand from a prehistoric lakebed. A company called Sargent Ranch bought the land to extract the material for construction projects in the South Bay.

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