Residents of the Arcola/Rosharon area in Fort Bend County are celebrating the recent decision of the state’s environmental regulatory agency to “vacate” the most recent permit application by a Houston company to build and operate a concrete-crushing facility – but the two-year-long battle to stop the facility may not be over.
On August 25, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality issued a letter announcing that its executive director had “vacated”, or denied, the most application of Julepit, Inc. to build and operate the facility on an undeveloped property in Rosharon in an unincorporated part of the county. The area abuts the city of Arcola and the Sienna development in Missouri City.
If constructed, according to the company, the plant would crush up to 200 tons of concrete per hour for up to 2,640 hours per year. According to the company, spay bars would be used to wet down the concrete to keep dust from being emitted and that a tree line around the property would remain in place so that the facility’s operations could not be seen from outside…