Hundreds of Angry Residents attend TCEQ Hearing
Commissioner Garcia offers to buy property
By Gilbert Hoffman
ALDINE – Residents of this community are up in arms over the announcement of another proposed concrete plant within their neighborhood.
A public hearing was held last Thursday evening, at the offices of the East Aldine District, and hundreds of residents, government officials, educators and health professionals turned out to voice their opposition to the proposed plant.
Speaker after speaker told the representatives of TCEQ, the state agency that must approve the application for air quality, that they suffered from asthma and other health conditions caused by eight existing concrete plants within a five mile radius of Aldine.
Many of the speakers pointed out that the site for the concrete plant couldn’t have been a worse choice, since it is next to residential homes, a new all-inclusive county parks for immunocompromised children and adults, and within a close distance to an elementary school, with children walking there every day.
