Comal County residents are suing the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to stop the construction of a quarry they say will pollute the air with a lung-damaging contaminate.
Stop 3009 Vulcan Quarry and Friends of Dry Comal Creek filed a lawsuit in Travis County court on Monday to overturn TCEQ’s permit for a Vulcan Materials Co. rock-crushing facility. The facility will be a piece of a proposed limestone quarry, which Vulcan plans to place on a 1,500 acre site in the Hill Country between New Braunfels and Bulverde.
TCEQ commissioners unanimously approved the project in November following the recommendation of a state administrative law judge.
“The Texas Government Code prohibits the Commission from substituting its own judgement in place of the ALJ’s judgement,” TCEQ Chairman Jon Niermann said at the time.
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