In McKinney, Concerns Over Concrete Batch Plant Near Wildlife Sanctuary, Special Needs Facility and

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The Fairview Soccer Park in McKinney has been around for about 14 years. Sammy Olali developed the facility, where some 500 kids practice as part of the Ayses Soccer Club. The soccer park is near the Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary as well as Cornerstone Ranch, a home for special needs adults.

Now, a company called TXI Operations wants to build a concrete batch plant a little more than a mile away, a move that's sparking public health concerns among local activists and residents.

TXI Operations applied for permits from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality that would allow the company to build the plant at 1825 FM 546, southeast of the city's airport. The plant would primarily be used to manufacture concrete by mixing together sand, aggregate, cement, water and other materials. The Dallas Sierra Club is organizing people in the area to oppose the permit at a TCEQ hearing at 6 p.m. Monday.

The McKinney City Council recently annexed another piece of land in the area for another concrete company, North Texas Natural Select Materials, which plans to build a concrete recycling facility.

Read more: https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/residents-and-activists-oppose-mckinney-concrete-batch-plant-13171153

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1. It's Texas, so I expect bidness will have their way, despite:

Even in the 21st century, millions of people are working daily in a dusty environment. They are exposed to different types of health hazards such as fume, gases and dust, which are risk factors in developing occupational disease. Cement industry is involved in the development of structure of this advanced and modern world but generates dust during its production. Cement dust causes lung function impairment, chronic obstructive lung disease, restrictive lung disease, pneumoconiosis and carcinoma of the lungs, stomach and colon. Other studies have shown that cement dust may enter into the systemic circulation and thereby reach the essentially all the organs of body and affects the different tissues including heart, liver, spleen, bone, muscles and hairs and ultimately affecting their micro-structure and physiological performance. Most of the studies have been previously attempted to evaluate the effects of cement dust exposure on the basis of spirometry or radiology, or both. However, collective effort describing the general effects of cement dust on different organ and systems in humans or animals, or both has not been published. Therefore, the aim of this review is to gather the potential toxic effects of cement dust and to minimize the health risks in cement mill workers by providing them with information regarding the hazards of cement dust.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15448758/