Quarries have ‘negative impacts’ on residents’ property, quality of life, survey results say

In a recent survey about the impacts of living near Williamson County quarries, 97 percent of respondents say the rock operations — Aggregate Production Operations or APOs — have damaged their property or degraded their quality of life.Survey results, a project of the Coalition for Responsible Environmental Aggregate Mining (CREAM), were released May 28. The survey was conducted from…