Shame on those that discredit Granite

The anti-quarry groups will do anything to discredit Granite Construction and the quarry they propose to build.

My wife and I are amazed to read and hear the misinformation and negative tone of the anti-quarry folks. Not only are they displaying unrelated photographs of overturned trucks, fictional statistics, trashed rivers, they are using outright misinformation about the effects of the quarry on the environment, i.e., water, air and traffic.

When we owned 20 acres on Rollins Lake in Grass Valley, Calif., we passed a quarry on the 15-mile country road from town to our property; there were no...