About 250 people packed into a Georgetown conference room on Thursday afternoon to discuss rock quarries."Williamson County has the most quarries out of any other county in the state, so there’s a lot of interest we encounter every day," said Michael Spano, the co-founder of the Coalition for Responsible Aggregate Mining, or CREAM. "As we drive, we see them. Some of them blast and shake our neighborhoods."In 2020, Spano said Williamson County became home to 34 rock quarries.
A few years ago, they said there was enough rural space to separate quarries and communities, but that's not the case anymore.An environmental attorney, Molly Cagle, a geoscientist, Heather Beatty, and a state representative, Terry Wilson, sat on Thursday’s panel."That doesn’t mean what you’re doing on your land needs to ruin my agricultural mission," said Wilson.