**3.5 Social impacts of quarry**

If the proposed quarry is in urban center where it is surrounded by residential and recreational land of high scenic values, quarry operation will negatively impact on these values. The quarry would be visible to homes, parks, and open space. The quarry operations will produce fugitive dust from blasting, vehicular emissions, and other mining operation which would deteriorate air quality. The dust will affect negatively the health and the well-being of residents [11]. A descriptive example of such incident is demonstrated by Semere [14]. He reported in 2013 that there was a functioning coarse aggregate quarry site 60 m from a cooperative apartment dwelling in the capital city of Ethiopia; this has an impact both on the structures and the dwellers around the vicinity (**Figure 6**).
