Concrete Batch Plant Update

Alto Coalition for Environmental Preservation (AltoCEP) is trying several methods to shut down the building of the proposed plant.

There is the Multiple-Plaintiff Private Nuisance Lawsuit, which you can still join as a plaintiff (see website AltoCEP.org)

On Dec 15, 2021, a motion to dismiss the NMED Air Quality application based on lack of notice to all property owners within 1.5 miles was heard. The motion was denied.

Deed Restriction violation to be taken to court by property owners in the same subdivision to try to stop the building of the plant.

The NMED Air Quality Public Hearing on the Roper's application is scheduled Feb. 9, 10 & 11. Times and local location of hearing as yet to be announced. Plan to attend. Make your voice heard. Our letters of opposition written to NMED-Air Quality forced the NMED to have a public hearing.

Please donate on the website AltoCEP.ORG through Go Fund Me or by paypal or if you prefer to pay by check, send check to: Phyllis Bewley, CPA, PO Box 123, Ruidoso, NM, 88355-0123 Attn: ROSPOA CBP. In check memo put: Concrete Batch Plant Legal Defense and make your check or money order payable to “ROSPOA”. The Ranches of Sonterra Property Owners Association has established a separate, dedicated account to receive donations and pay the fees.

If all of us with a house in the 88312 zipcode donated $10, $15, $20 each month until we win, AltoCEP will have the money necessary to fight the building of this plant. It will pay the environmental lawyer hired plus any experts needed to gather data and to give testimony at the public hearing. Any monies not used will be available to fight any future heavy industry projects that try to come into this corridor. There is no county ordinance to keep heavy industry out. Hence the name of the group- Alto Coalition for Environmental Preservation instead of specific to this particular fight: Alto Coalition to Stop Concrete Batch Plant.

Please write your representatives. Most of the US and State representatives/senators have on their website a form to email them directly. Continue to write the Lincoln County Commissioners.

A letter of opposition and solidarity sent to the New Mexico Environmental Department (address below) would be extraordinarily helpful in preventing this travesty.”

Permit Programs Manager,

Deepika Saikrishanan

New Mexico Environmental Department

Air Quality Bureau

525 Camino de los Marques, Suite 1

Santa Fe, NM 87505—1816

We have 200 homes & businesses in Sun Valley that will be directly impacted by the concrete batch plant. Here's a map so you can see how close we are to the proposed Concrete Batch Plant

We must fight this Concrete Batch Plant for so many reasons:

Air Pollution (see previous post on Crystalline Silica & also new info on wind below)

Noise pollution

Night Lights - Reduced visibility of stars and harmful to bats from Ft Stanton Cave (and elsewhere)

Run off water pollution from cleaning of cement trucks every day will infiltrate Little Creek, Bonito River, private wells and Snowy River Cave National Area formations

Heavy Truck Traffic

Road condition deterioration

Endangerment to all wildlife

Excessive water withdrawal from the Hondo Watershed - a closed basin

Less that 1 mile from a Wilderness Area

Property Values will drastically reduce. Realtors predict up to 50% drop in value

Billy the Kid SCENIC Byway, no longer scenic