Just nine people have backed plans for a quarry in Shelford.
Plans have been drawn up which would see half a million tonnes of sand and gravel extracted every year from a piece of land the size of 139 football pitches.
Nottinghamshire County Council launched a eight-week consultation on the plans with more than 3,000 people objecting and fewer than ten approving.
And John Beynon, a campaigner against the plans who has lived in Shelford for nearly 40 years, said he wasn't surprised at the strength of feeling.
He said: "A group called Sage (Shelford Against Gravel Extraction) was set up in 2009 when the ideas were first suggested and we've worked on a technical objection to the plans.
"We object because of traffic, landscape, wildlife, flooding and what we would call impact on heritage.
"I'm not surprised so many people have come out and said they object. It's not just Shelford, surrounding villages such as Radcliffe-on-Trent, Lowdham, Colwick are also concerned about the quarry too."
Nottinghamshire County Council is currently drawing up its Minerals Local Plan – a blueprint for where quarrying in the county will take place until 2030.
Other potential sites include Barton-in-Fabis and Averham, near Newark.
Radcliffe-on-Trent county councillor Kay Cutts has said she is against the plans for Shelford.
She said: "I think the proposal is an absolute abomination and will totally ruin Shelford Valley.
"It is completely outrageous."
If given the go-ahead, developer Brett Aggregates could operate at the site for 14 years with an estimated start date of 2016.
About 180,000 tonnes of gravel and sand per year would be taken by barge to Colwick Industrial Estate for use in concrete batching plants, with the remaining 320,000 tonnes taken by a conveyor belt to the processing plant.
Mike Courts, director of planning for the Brett Group, said: "Councillors have a difficult job here because quarries are not by their nature popular.
"Everyone needs aggregates and life depends upon them - but no one wants the source to be close to where they live. It is natural that each of the communities across the county identified as a potential future source should express concerns for its own environment, and we respect that.
"It is being suggested that the countryside around Shelford would be lost for all time, which is not the case.
"Our plans involve continuous restoration which would transform what is currently farmland to become wetland of national significance with greatly improved public access to the Trent.
"It is a question of trying to find the best and most sustainable balance across the county as a whole. We believe the Shelford proposals with their barge delivery facility can help to achieve that."
