Quarry 'study' bunk

John Husing speaks of better “air quality.” Does adding 1,600 truck trips per day, increased diesel exhaust and noxious odors from asphalt plants accomplish this? Does releasing fine particles of silica dust from blasting (which leads to respiratory disease, scarring lung tissue) and “nuisance dust” help air quality?

Eliminate “115,000 lbs of harmful air emissions yearly?” Just build Liberty Quarry elsewhere!

“Erasing 16.5 million truck miles from Riverside County?” Does Granite “contend” traveling only to San Diego County? They must be “genius” to predict job flow for the next 75 years.

I am deeply touched by Gary Johnson’s concern for “education and public safety.” He knows there are 40 schools within six miles of the site. Children are particularly susceptible to silica’s dangers. He should be concerned about “public safety.”

This hard-rock, open-pit mine would be the largest in the nation in terms of “reserves” (amount of rock removed: 270 million tons). Giving you perspective, the mine will be 1,000 feet deep. The Empire State Building is one 1,000 feet high.

Gary is concerned with residents “doing without facilities supporting their lifestyles.” Does he, perhaps, mean our homes when property values drop due to a mine? Does he mean the ecological reserve, devastated by blasting, dust and light pollution?

What does he mean? What will this quarry give Rainbow, Fallbrook and Temecula that we don’t already enjoy?

Go away, Granite! Take your mine, your money, your so-called “good intentions” and leave us in the peace we already have.

Jerri Arganda

Rainbow