Number Of Construction Sand And Gravel Operations And Processing Plants In The United States In 2007, By Geographic Division

TABLE� 8
NUMBER OF CONSTRUCTION SAND AND GRAVEL OPERATIONS AND PROCESSING PLANTS
IN THE UNITED STATES IN 2007, BY GEOGRAPHIC DIVISION�

	Mining operations on land
			Stationary�	No plants or	Dredging	Total active
Region/division	Stationary�	Portable�	and portable	unspecified	operations	operations
Northeast:
New England	208	216	44	38	1	507
Middle Atlantic	195	198	42	39	35	509
Midwest:
East North Central	531	406	83	94	110	1,224
West North Central	288	446	30	71	221	1,056
South:
South Atlantic	135	49	16	53	110	363
East South Central	137	27	5	14	54	237
West South Central	286	95	29	49	113	572
West:
Mountain	536	647	99	133	18	1,433
Pacific¹�	407	211	72	54	23	767
Total�	2,723	2,295	420	545	685	6,668
¹An undetermined number of operations leased from the Bureau of Land Management in Alaska are counted
as one operation.