As a result of Roper Construction's appeal (permit request number 9295) because of the New Mexico Environment Department's denials at two levels, the Environment Improvement Board has scheduled a Public Hearing for October 18, 19, and 20, 2022. No other public details have been released at this time although the EIB is now receiving opposition communication through Pam Jones at email: pamela.jones@state.nm.us or phone at 505 660 4305 or postal hard copy to Pam Jones, Hearing Clerk, NMED, 1190 St. Francis Drive, Santa Fe, NM 87505. Re-sending opposition letters that were received by NMED for the February Public Hearing will be accepted with any updates deemed appropriate by the writer.
Following is a partial list of concerns that have been generated during the last seventeen months of objections. These concerns are not to be considered limiting but your objections need to address the deleterious effects of a concrete batch plant at the current, proposed location which adjoins Josh Botkin's High Country Nursery to the east at approximately four tenths of a mile east of the State Highway 48 intersection on State Highway 220.
Concerns:
1. Primarily a residential area with two sensitive populations, children and elderly, within the half-mile affected zone as described by NMED requiring certified, written notification.
2. How a concrete batch plant will affect the air quality of the surrounding area (human and various aspects of the environment).
3. How fugitive dust (an unavoidable condition of CBPs) will impact health and property.
4. If you can, be specific as to how personal health issues (ex. – compromised immune systems) will be impacted by CBP air pollutants.
5. How CBPs negatively affect wildlife and vegetation.
6. Threats to endangered species in the White Mountain Class I Wilderness. At 1.1 miles, the proposed site is within the three mile outer limit for such a project.
7. The 1999 Night Sky Protecton Act that prohibits light pollution.
8. The corridor is currently federally funded as the Billy the Kid National Scenic Byway and as such, there is a six-part protocol to be met to maintain such a designation. A concrete batch plant violates the protocol.
9. Noise, traffic congestion, road maintenance. 10. Water issues regarding acquisition, transportation, consumption, potential ground water contamination.
Please encourage others to write as the AltoCEP is assured that a large quantity of letters will not be overlooked during the EIB evaluation of r. Roper' appeal.
(Information provided by Galen Farrington)
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