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Grassroots group sets up air monitoring devices

Members of a mining watchdog group have taken air quality matters into their own hands. Randy Printz of saveburnet.
Burnet County resident Randy Printz, who has property on FM 3509 near a planned quarry, has installed a number of monitors around Burnet County to gather data about aggregate industry's impact on air quality. Connie Swinney/The Highlander

Members of a mining watchdog group have taken air quality matters into their own hands.

Randy Printz of saveburnet. com recently shared with a state committee his efforts to provide information about quarry dust in the air. (Find related story on Page 1).

Printz owns a ranch across the highway from a proposed rock crushing operation on 714 acres just off FM 3509 in Hoover’s Valley.

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