Comment EI-1109
Received or sent (printed as 12/3/2004)
I wanted to thank the STB for the opportunity to speak a the public meeting held in Hondo. I'm sure anytime a project like this is proposed, you hear all kinds of emotion feeled speeches and have to weigh each comment for actual impact on any environmental issues. Some of the facts they were throwing out such as flooding are somewhat inflated. It recently rained 5.5 inches on my father-in-laws place on top of already wet ground and my son and I went hunting the next day and did not have to drive through any high water what so ever. If they are building their houses in the creeks and water way's then it doesn't say much for common sense. One gentleman even said this is a desert area. So which is it a wetland area that floods constantly or a desert? I grew up in Hondo where a UP railway goes right through town. Our house was 1/4 mile away and it did keep me awake at night and it did shake our house to pieces. There are many historic building within a few hundred feet as you saw when you went to the meeting. These structures have not had any damage from vibration or noise and this railway does not cause any flooding. These trains come through Hondo every hour at a speed which is a lot faster than the train, which will be hauling aggregate. I see no issues with the rail way which would not be solved with the mitigants proposed in teh DEIS. Thanks
Submitted by: Craig Heiligman · Castroville, Texas
The Board publishes this comment in its environmental-comment table for this proceeding. It is quoted here as printed; nothing is inferred from it, and it states the commenter's own position in their own words, not this record's.
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