The frustration was palpable at the Wimberley Community Center last week as around 200 members of the public attended a meeting hosted by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on the proposed air quality permit that would be the first step in the process of creating a quarry on Needmore Ranch.
“I moved to Wimberley because of the clean air and clean water,” Erica Fick, who said she lives about two miles from the proposed quarry location, said. “My kids play outside. They swim in the Blanco River downstream from where this operation is going to be potentially operating. And what I’m hearing tonight is that it’s really up to Far South Mining to police themselves.”
Members of the TCEQ and Far South Mining, LLC, which is the company requesting the permit, answered questions from dozens of local residents concerned about the impacts of the potential quarry.
