Dump trucks come and go as fill is brought in to a quarry in July 2018 in East Bangor.Kurt Bresswein file photo | For lehighvalleylive.com

A Slate Belt community is looking for ways to make sure quarry fill is environmentally safe.

Plainfield Township officials are contemplating adopting regulations that would help protect against contaminated materials being used to fill inactive quarries in the municipality.

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