What We’re Opposing
Estrada Concrete Company, LLC. has been granted a permit for a “Double” Concrete Batch Plant facility, on FM 429, directly next to the College Mound water tower. Our top concern is AIR QUALITY, but our list of concerns is long.
Nuisance, Dangers, and Dollars
The proposed facility (Permit Number 184603) would be authorized for 300 cubic yards of concrete per hour and 650,000 cubic yards per year, with operations permitted 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
For College Mound and surrounding communities, that could mean: rock-dust, silicates, and heavy metals in our air (and lungs); high-decibel industrial noise, an increase of heavy truck traffic; and intense nighttime lighting. A round-the-clock facility could not only affect our health, our animals, our crops, and our peace and quiet. What about our water? What about our property values?
The proposed site would introduce a major industrial operation into a vulnerable area that is immediately surrounded by an already existing community of homes, livestock, agricultural land, fragile wildlife habitats, businesses, College Mound United Methodist Church, a historic school house, and a historic cemetery. There’s a Dollar General, just yards away from the proposed property. How can this even be considered? We are Texans. We are tax-paying citizens. How can this be legal?
Is It Ever “Just One”?
We encourage you to look-up “Concrete Batch Plants”. Learn what they are and what they can do. We understand that Kaufman County’s extreme growth will require vast quantities of industrial materials. We welcome this growth, but we must also keep our community safe from industrial dangers. Since we are an “unincorporated” town, we lack the basic protections and regulations of a city. This makes us quite attractive to all sorts of industrial companies like Estrada Concrete. We understand. There’s loads of money to be made. But we refuse to be a repeated target.
As the surrounding area continues to grow and develop, we want to send a loud and clear message: College Mound is a Community—not an Industrial Zone. Texans are already living, working, and worshiping here.
Keep scrolling to learn what you can do…
What You Can Do
Every action counts. Please take a moment to do your part to prevent Estrada’s Proposed Concrete Batch Plant in Collage Mound. (Permit Number 184603)
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Submit a comment to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) regarding Permit #184603. Explain your concerns/ask questions about how air pollution from the proposed concrete batch plant could affect you, your family, and the surrounding community.
Leave an eComment for the TCEQ by clicking: HERE
Be sure to include:
Permit #184603
Your specific Air-Quality concerns and questions
The ways you or your loved ones may be personally affected
The statement: “I request a public meeting with the TCEQ.”
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Ask all local and state representatives to help College Mound. Contact these elected officials and tell them your concerns about the proposed concrete batch plant (#184603) and how such an industrial plant could affect the community’s people, businesses, and churches.
These gentlemen have been elected to represent Texas Citizens and genuinely want to hear our needs.
Ask for each to review Permit #184603, hear residents’ concerns, and take any actions available and within their authority to please save our historic community!
Senator Bob Hall
Texas State Senator — District 2
📞 972-722-3131 (his helpful assistant will answer)
Commissioner Terry Crow
Kaufman County Commissioner — Precinct 1
📞 469-376-4157
✉️ terry.crow@kaufmancounty.netState Rep. Keith Bell
Texas State Representative — District 4
📞 972-552-5573 (his helpful assistant will answer)
Judge Jakie Allen
Kaufman County Judge (elected)
📞 469-376-4137
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Learn the truth about Concrete Batch Plants and how they can impact health. Read-up!
Help spread the word, right now. Talk to your neighbors, friends, and community members ASAP about your proposed concrete batch plant concerns. Share this website, our flyers, and post updates on your social media. Start a Facebook Group.
Community awareness and participation have played an important role in past permit challenges. The more people who know what’s happening, the more people can make their voices heard. WATCH FOR A TIME AND DATE OF A PUBLIC MEETING (potentially November 16th/TBA).
We will continue to add updates, as necessary.
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An official Public Meeting with the TCEQ is potentially set for November 16th. Time and place is still unknown/TBA.
For any questions, or if you have information that may be helpful to our effort, please contact us!