Dear Editor We were surprised to read in the article “Groundwater district extends restrictions“ in your newspaper that the Texas Committee on Environmental Quality had approved the petition of Asphalt, Inc. of Austin Texas asking to create a rock crushing operation near Hoover Valley Park Road 4 and RR 3509 in Burnet County. I take this to mean that they found that the company would not release pollutions (dust) into the atmosphere surrounding the property and so not reduce the quality of the air in this corner of the county.
And that they were not concerned about the many other problems raised by citizens living in the area.
We are not sure just where they found a study that would have supported their determination. Wow. I am no scientist, I have no studies to support anything, but I have driven along Highway 281 between Marble Falls and Burnet as the wind whipped across the quarry operation there.
