The dust New Mexicans were breathing then had been under virgin Kansas grassland only twenty years before. When that land was first plowed, it promptly blew away. That dust probably did not contain the silicates and toxic trace elements found in the fly ash and cement dust Grupo de Chihuahua plans to loose on the North Valley. Despite the relatively clean contents of the Kansas dusters, they killed people and livestock. There is NO way that quadrupling the amount of dust in the air around 2nd and Carleton St. in the North Valley, which is what Grupo de Chihuahua, a.k.a. American Cement proposes to do),can be anything other than damaging to the people living nearby.

Dust, any dust, when lodged in the tiny alveoli of the lungs, causes trouble. American Cement knows this as do its neighbors, who have lived with the problem far too long. The transfer station should never have been sited where it is to begin with (the neighborhood existed long before the transfer station was built) and certainly should not expand. Grupo de Chihuahua needs to acknowledge that when they bought the American Cement plant in Tijeras Canyon, they failed to identify the former American Cement's transfer station as a liability. They made a purchasing error or, perhaps more sinisterly, figured they could get away with further polluting an older, working class neighborhood. When those of us without money or influence make a mistake, we have to live with the consequences. American Cement, better bankrolled than the folks who breath their dust, wants to change the rules to accommodate their error instead.

The dust New Mexicans were breathing then had been under virgin Kansas grassland only twenty years before. When that land was first plowed, it promptly blew away. That dust probably did not contain the silicates and toxic trace elements found in the fly ash and cement dust Grupo de Chihuahua plans to loose on the North Valley. Despite the relatively clean contents of the Kansas dusters, they killed people and livestock. There is NO way that quadrupling the amount of dust in the air around 2nd and Carleton St. in the North Valley, which is what Grupo de Chihuahua, a.k.a. American Cement proposes to do),can be anything other than damaging to the people living nearby.

Dust, any dust, when lodged in the tiny alveoli of the lungs, causes trouble. American Cement knows this as do its neighbors, who have lived with the problem far too long. The transfer station should never have been sited where it is to begin with (the neighborhood existed long before the transfer station was built) and certainly should not expand. Grupo de Chihuahua needs to acknowledge that when they bought the American Cement plant in Tijeras Canyon, they failed to identify the former American Cement's transfer station as a liability. They made a purchasing error or, perhaps more sinisterly, figured they could get away with further polluting an older, working class neighborhood. When those of us without money or influence make a mistake, we have to live with the consequences. American Cement, better bankrolled than the folks who breath their dust, wants to change the rules to accommodate their error instead.

The dust New Mexicans were breathing then had been under virgin Kansas grassland only twenty years before. When that land was first plowed, it promptly blew away. That dust probably did not contain the silicates and toxic trace elements found in the fly ash and cement dust Grupo de Chihuahua plans to loose on the North Valley. Despite the relatively clean contents of the Kansas dusters, they killed people and livestock. There is NO way that quadrupling the amount of dust in the air around 2nd and Carleton St. in the North Valley, which is what Grupo de Chihuahua, a.k.a. American Cement proposes to do),can be anything other than damaging to the people living nearby.

Dust, any dust, when lodged in the tiny alveoli of the lungs, causes trouble. American Cement knows this as do its neighbors, who have lived with the problem far too long. The transfer station should never have been sited where it is to begin with (the neighborhood existed long before the transfer station was built) and certainly should not expand. Grupo de Chihuahua needs to acknowledge that when they bought the American Cement plant in Tijeras Canyon, they failed to identify the former American Cement's transfer station as a liability. They made a purchasing error or, perhaps more sinisterly, figured they could get away with further polluting an older, working class neighborhood. When those of us without money or influence make a mistake, we have to live with the consequences. American Cement, better bankrolled than the folks who breath their dust, wants to change the rules to accommodate their error instead.

The dust New Mexicans were breathing then had been under virgin Kansas grassland only twenty years before. When that land was first plowed, it promptly blew away. That dust probably did not contain the silicates and toxic trace elements found in the fly ash and cement dust Grupo de Chihuahua plans to loose on the North Valley. Despite the relatively clean contents of the Kansas dusters, they killed people and livestock. There is NO way that quadrupling the amount of dust in the air around 2nd and Carleton St. in the North Valley, which is what Grupo de Chihuahua, a.k.a. American Cement proposes to do),can be anything other than damaging to the people living nearby.

Dust, any dust, when lodged in the tiny alveoli of the lungs, causes trouble. American Cement knows this as do its neighbors, who have lived with the problem far too long. The transfer station should never have been sited where it is to begin with (the neighborhood existed long before the transfer station was built) and certainly should not expand. Grupo de Chihuahua needs to acknowledge that when they bought the American Cement plant in Tijeras Canyon, they failed to identify the former American Cement's transfer station as a liability. They made a purchasing error or, perhaps more sinisterly, figured they could get away with further polluting an older, working class neighborhood. When those of us without money or influence make a mistake, we have to live with the consequences. American Cement, better bankrolled than the folks who breath their dust, wants to change the rules to accommodate their error instead.