Don Horn Protecting Our Texas 4th Congressional District<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s a Kiln<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n (The Swiss-based company Holcim is the largest cement producer in the U.S. It\u2019s plant in Midlothian is the No. 1 polluter in all of North Texas, pumping out 7,952 tons of total emissions in 2019. Laura Hunt. Jacob Vaughn<\/a>)<\/sup><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n (Not a Batch Plant)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Statistics:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Whenever I talk to people about the cement plant to be built in Dorchester, they inevitably start describing some batch plant being built near their homes. One lady I talked to a few nights a go actually mentioned a batch plant being built near her home. Then she said, what\u2019s the big deal? We need the cement anyway.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It seems incredulous that people confuse a Midlothian style burn Kiln with a batch plant. According to Maplogs <\/a>: Dorchester, TX, USA has an Elevation: 264 meters \/ 866 feet. Its been reported that the Kiln will be the largest Kiln in Texas. If the kiln has four hundred foot high smoke stacks on top of Dorchester 866 foot elevation, that would put the top of the smoke stacks about twelve hundred feet above sea level. Dorchester sits on the highest elevation in all of North Texas. Dorchester sits dead center of the Golden Corridor. (The Golden Corridor is the ridge that runs from downtown Dallas to the Red River where some of the most expensive homes in Texas are built.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n From Dorchester the land slopes down hill in all directions. Dorchester is about 866 feet above sea level, where as the elevation of Dallas, Texas is at about 430 feet above sea level. The storm winds would blow the contamination down hill from Dorchester down to McKinney towards Dallas, across all those million dollar mansions built in the Golden Corridor. Dorchester sits on top of the hill right in the center of the Golden Corridor and the beginning of the watershed for the drinking water for most of all of Texas\u2019 populated areas. The Trinity, The Red River and The Choctaw at Dorchester serves as the headwaters of the drinking waters for Texas and Southern Oklahoma. The prevailing winds would blow the contamination towards lake Texoma, The Arbuckles, Lake Murray, Durant, Sulfur, and Ardmore Oklahoma.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n For TCEQ to even consider permitting a place like the cement kiln in Dorchester should be considered a heinous dereliction of duty, or even criminal corruption. For Dan Patrick and Greg Abbott to even consider allowing the TCEQ to permit such an enterprise should be grounds for their removal from office. Hold on\u2026hold on\u2026 Hold on\u2026 Isn\u2019t all this a bit way over melodramatic. May be. But, Dorchester is ground zero for the surface and subsurface drinking water for a major portion of the populated areas of the State of Texas, Southern Oklahoma AND several Native Indian Reservations. This makes what TCEQ is trying to permit is the potential contamination of interstate drinking water. So, this is no longer just a matter for the local TCEQ. This water crisis should be in the concern of Trump\u2019s EPA enforcement. This Kiln potentially affects interstate drinking water.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The contamination risk will be extensive. Expect contamination from Frisco to McKinney to Ardmore, Oklahoma. Property values and property tax base will plummet. This does not even address the destruction of the economy due to the blasting strip mine destroying the silicon chip manufacturing industry being built less than five miles from the cement plant. Nor does this address the massive rail yard slated to be built in Gunter near Dorchester. The burn Kiln, the blasting pit mine and the extensive rail yard has the potential to destroy the health of the citizens, the economic future viability of the area, the property values, the property tax base potential of one of the futures most valuable land areas in all of Texas and possibly the whole country. Dorchester is slated to be the future center of the new Silicon Valley.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Our Migratory Birds<\/em>, Our Drinking Water,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Our Breathable Air Must Be Protected<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n It’s a Kiln<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n (The Swiss-based company Holcim is the largest cement producer in the U.S. It\u2019s plant in Midlothian is the No. 1 polluter in all of North Texas, pumping out 7,952 tons of total emissions in 2019. Laura Hunt. Jacob Vaughn<\/a>)<\/sup><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n (Not a Batch Plant)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a9 Don Horn 2024<\/sub><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n Statistics:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/donhorn4congress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image.jpeg\")
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