Comment EI-33749
Received or sent (printed as 3/17/2025)
I am opposed to the proposed construction of a railway by Texas Materials which will pass through Lake Victor, TX. This project will bisect many private properties where livestock is raised and will disrupt ranching businesses. It will pass within a few hundred feet of several homes. Lake Victor has no fire department and with Burnet County being in a perpetual state of severe drought, the chance of fire is very real. We have high winds in this area. Wind + dry pasture + Juniper Ash trees = DISASTER. Lake Victor could be destroyed before any fire departments in neighboring towns could reach us. Our area is home to many protected Migratory Birds, including the Golden Cheek Warbler which has been listed as Federally Endangered. Many of the property owners, including myself, have worked to have our property listed as Wildlife Management by Burnet County and the State of Texas. We make our properties hospitable to various species of wildlife, including these protected migratory birds. The fact that Texas Materials (which is owned by a Fortune 500 company based in Ireland - CRH Group), has purchased the ROW that was abandoned in 1951 and done it without the knowledge of any potentially affected landowners is horrendously immoral. This IS NOT the only option. Use existing railways. Everything that is good and beautiful doesn\'t have to be sacrificed on the alter of the almighty dollar. I expect a timely response to each point that I have highlighted in these comments. Thank you.
Submitted by: Carla M. Wills · Burnet, TX
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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