WESTBROOK – Pike Industries will begin blasting at its Spring Street quarry Friday, as long as the weather cooperates.

A motion to keep the quarry from becoming operational was filed in mid-September on behalf of an abutter, Smiling Hill Farm, after the initial blast, scheduled for Sept. 13, did not take place due to weather concerns.

Tom Spellman, Pike’s crushing manager for Maine and New Hampshire, said on Tuesday that the quarry would be operational despite the motion.

“We’re going to blast. The ordinances were approved by the city and the consent order has been agreed to. We’re following the guidelines the city set for,” Spellman said. “We’re going to blast. Yes, there are things tied up in the courts but we’re ready to get some rock on the ground.”

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has yet to decide whether an appeal by Smiling Hill Farms to stop operation at the quarry includes a stay preventing the blasting until the appeal is decided. The motion to enforce a stay was filed on Sept. 16.

Jerre Bryant, city administrator for Westbrook, confirmed the city had issued blasting permits to Pike and was operating under the assumption Pike could blast unless otherwise notified by the courts.

David Silk, of the law firm Curtis Thaxter in Portland, who is representing Smiling Hill Farm, said the farm is appealing the consent order between the city and Pike, which regulates quarry operations like blasting sound levels and how many trips trucks can make in an out of the quarry each day.

Silk said Smiling Hill Farm, a dairy farm and abutter to the property, is arguing that that the consent order bypassed contract zone procedures.

Smiling Hill Farm is the lone abutter still continuing to pursue a way to stop Pike from utilizing its quarry. Artel, which once fought alongside the farm in an appeal against Pike, Idexx and a group of residents in Birdland and on Spring Street, have all settled their concerns with Pike over the quarry.

For the past four years, Pike and Westbrook officials have been working toward a blasting agreement that works for both residents and businesses.

Silk said he hopes the motion will be decided by the courts before Pike blasts on Friday.