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The Guadalupe Neighborhood Association (GNA) announced today that they have hired the Austin based law firm of Carls, McDonald & Dalrymple, LLP (C, M & D) to prepare and file with the Texas Commission for Environmental Quality (TCEQ) a “Motion to Overturn, Stay, and Reconsider the Executive Director’s Approval of Standard Permit Registration Numbers 91373 and 91374 Issued to Highland Concrete Company and Request for a Contested Case Hearing” (Motion to Overturn, Stay, and Reconsider).
Carlos Quirino, Jr., President of GNA stated, “I am pleased to announce that the Austin based law firm of C, M & D has filed a 15 page Motion to Overturn, Stay, and Reconsider, which also includes 149 pages of attached exhibits. Also, it is expected that a formal lawsuit will also be filed in a Travis County District Court by the end of this week.”
The residents of the neighborhood are extremely concerned about the effects of the concrete dust on their health and their environment; dust which will be an inevitable by product of the plant.
Studies have shown that concrete workers have developed respiratory and lung problems when exposed to even low levels of dusts containing “crystalline silica”; which is generated in “concrete production industries”, according to a study published on the US National Library of Medicine web site.
The organization has also been working very hard for the past few years to try and clean up the area around the neighborhood known as “the arroyo” and their efforts have paid off. Just two years ago, a representative from the TCEQ visited the area to applaud their efforts. It is ironic that now that same government agency is responsible for issuing the permit to Highland allowing it to proceed
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