by admin | Mar 8, 2019 | Aggregate Production Operations, County Authority, Legislature and Regulation, News, Planning and Development
An extremely vocal coalition of area ranchers, business people, ex-military personnel and retired professionals convinced Administrative Law Judge Rebecca Smith to grant them “affected-party” status at a March 6 hearing to determine who has the right to challenge a...
by admin | Mar 5, 2019 | Aggregate Production Operations, County Authority, Legislature and Regulation, News, Planning and Development
Property owners and other stakeholders trying to keep Vulcan Construction Materials from developing a 1,500-acre open-pit limestone quarry at FM 3009 and SH-46 are expected to pack Comal County Commissioners Courtroom 9 a.m. Wednesday for a preliminary administrative...
by admin | Dec 20, 2018 | Aggregate Production Operations, Legislature and Regulation, News, Water Quality, Water Resources
Violations stemming from two separate discharges of sedimentary debris into Onion Creek in 2016 and 2017 led to citations for the Hays Quarry Rock Crushing Plant, according to a Barton Publications investigation. The investigation came after video and photo evidence...
by admin | Dec 13, 2018 | Aggregate Production Operations, News, Planning and Development
As expected, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on Wednesday granted numerous requests for a contested hearing on an application by Vulcan Construction Materials for an air permit to operate a limestone quarry in Comal County. If approved, the project would...
by admin | Nov 29, 2018 | Aggregate Production Operations, Legislature and Regulation, News
AUSTIN – State Senator Donna Campbell filed Senate Bill 208 today to extend requirements for setbacks, or buffer zones, around aggregate facilities. If passed, the bill would double the current 440 yard requirement between concrete plants or quarries and existing...
by admin | Apr 23, 2018 | Aggregate Production Operations, News
Vulcan Materials has come under intense public criticism for its plan to open a concrete batch plant near a school in Kendall County, but The complaints came to a head last week at the agency’s public hearing on the requested permit for the plant, the final chance for...
