A stretch of far East Austin between U.S. 183 and SH 45, is currently a collection of dusty roads for rock and concrete crushers, and more mining operations are moving in, despite health concerns from the surrounding residents.
nestled in a bend of the Colorado River between U.S. 183 and SH 45, is currently a collection of dusty roads for rock and concrete crushers, and even more mining operations are moving in, despite health concerns from the surrounding residents. Meanwhile in the Lege,
, a bill that looks to restrict the amount of investigation TCEQ must do on citizen complaints, passed the House Tuesday., whose commissioners were called"reluctant regulators" by the Legislature's Sunset Commission staff last year, grantedat 300 Edwin Ln., despite 86 comments from those that live near it about the dust's possible health risks and many requests for a public meeting that never happened.
And the agency's appraisal of a site before granting a permit can also be flawed: Dust varies by time of day and the weather, Mehner and Lupone say, and when the TCEQ investigator came to assess the problem for the Ranger permit, there was no dust. Shelley says there are even instances where"if the facility sees the investigators coming, then they might very quickly change their operations. That's not speculative, we know that happens.
“When I started reading about silicosis, it was enough of a question mark in my head ... Why wouldn’t you put these things further away?” The second permit is still pending, and Lupone and others have reached out to legislators and District 3 City Council Memberhe contacted TCEQ to request a hearing on the two permits but"could not get a clear answer on whether we had jurisdiction since both properties are located in the ETJ.
Last year's sunset review of the agency found that of all of TCEQ's investigations, only 4.1% were initiated by citizen complaints. In a May 10 hearing on SB 471, the Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance'ssaid,"Persistent citizen complaints often indicate that the problem has not been fixed.
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