COLUMBIA COUNTY, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Residents near Gordon Highway are pushing back against a proposal to build a concrete batch plant and garbage transfer center on a stretch of rural land in Columbia County.
Jimmy Hunt, who was raised on his family’s farm off Gordon Highway and has lived there for 64 years, said the development would threaten farms in the area and create safety hazards on the road.
“We don’t want it,” Hunt said. “We don’t want to pollute the groundwater. We don’t want the silica dust from the concrete plant.”…