A development application for an extractive industry (sand quarry) at Eumungerie was lodged with Dubbo City Council in early December and is currently under assessment.

Dubbo City Council's acting general manager David Dwyer said notification letters had been sent to the owners of 11 neighbouring properties on December 10.

Chris Sampson, who lives two and a half kilometres from the proposed site, said a mine in Eumungerie had left a trail of destruction a few years ago.

"There was a mine here before two doors up from us, about 200 metres from the house and they left it," she said.

"It still hasn't been cleaned up; it looks like a bomb's hit the place."

Mr Dwyer said the proposed site of the mine would cover two hectares and the mining company had proposed to quarry the site in three separate stages with each stage to be rehabilitated once quarrying is completed.

"The quarry will be to a depth of two metres," he said.

"A proposed maximum of 6,000 cubic metres of sand will be extracted per annum with five truck loads of sand being removed per week, an average of one truck per day.

"The hours of operation of the quarry will be Monday to Friday, 7am to 6pm, and there is to be no blasting.

"The sand will be excavated by a front end loader and removed by either a tip truck or table top truck.

"The route to be taken from the property will be via Coolbaggie Forest Road onto Mogriguy Road and then onto the Highway."

Mrs Sampson said she is not convinced the mining will stick to the proposed mining, due to previous experience.

"He's claiming one load a day and that's just not feasible," she said.

"The trucks from the last mine ran all day, five days a week, about 10 to 12 trips a day.

"And they ran the other cars off the road. We've had a gutful of the trucks."

The development application documentation is on public exhibition at Dubbo City Council's Civic Administration Building until Tuesday January 13.

As of Monday, only one submission had been received and Ms Sampson encouraged others to have their say on the proposal.

"The application is very inconclusive," she said.

"It's like they're saying 'If I can't see them they're not there,' they're not acknowledging us living there."

Deputy mayor Ben Shields has said he will back up the opinions of the Eumungerie community.

"I want to see what the submissions are," he said.

"If the people of Eumungerie are against it then I'm dead against it."

Councillor Shields expressed his concern for the roads and said thorough investigations must be undertaken.

"I don't think the road is capable of handling big trucks- it worries me," he said.

"If it's a small operation with no employment opportunities of the people of Eumungerie then there may not be any benefit to the area.

"Councillors may need to get a good idea of what the people of Eumungerie want."

Ms Sampson agreed the roads designed are for rural purposes and said sand trucks pose a concern. She said the area's quiet charm was the reason for relocating 24 years ago.

"We don't want it," she said.

"Surely they can do it somewhere else."