The quarry and the quarry location is excellent and much needed. It would be difficult to find a better location where trucks can enter the freeway without travelling on surface streets. They also have to go through a weigh station each direction further increasing safety.

The need of the many is gravel and asphalt. Roads are going to heck in a hand basket partly because asphalt is having to be brought from such a long distance.

I find it amusing that someone from Temecula is complaing about air quality. That place is quite disgusting a good part of the year. I'm more concerned about their air pollution drifting over the hill and affecting Fallbrook than the air pollution from this quarry. Luckily the wind usually blows the other way. How ironic it is that they cannot fathom the concept that the more quarries we have, the less overall truck miles are driven because the quarries will be closer to the points of consumption. If a truck drives 15 miles instead of 40 from the next quarry, you would actually have less pollution. Ideally, every community would have a quarry.

Either way, it doesn't matter. When the dollar collapses, people will support anything that creates a job. The quarry is a done deal and rightly so.

Besides, it will make a great resevoir in 75 years.

To the knowledge of this citizen, the project proponents for the Liberty Quarry have never identified the locale from which the 100 jobholders would come to man this proposed project. The City of Temecula, the City of Murrieta, the Temecula Valley? The jobs mantra sounds good, but without the project proponents specifying that the jobholders would come from the ranks of local citizens now living here, the mantra equates to a misleading if not suspect chant. Further, the City of Temecula nears build-out, and so the proposed project will, at best, serve this city only a fraction of the life of this proposed project. Then, the hundreds of gravel-hauling trucks would use local roads to serve other areas, to the detriment of this area. The fugitive dust from the proposed project would travel through the air local citizens breathe, creating a detriment here for the benefit of others elsewhere. Further, how could a proposed project of this physical size with its disturbance of the natural environment not negatively affect existing and nearby wildlife? Answer: It will certainly bring a negative effect to wildlife. The project proponents will scoff at these concerns, and find words to circumvent them, because the lure of money has turned their heads. The project proponents care not a fig about these concerns, and others like them, but only about profit-seeking first before all else.

Who cares what locale fills the jobs? Jobs are jobs. If someone from Escondido gets a job, what's the problem?

Are we really near build out in Temecula? Says who? Also, what about repaving roads? What about redevelopment? Gravel needs are not just new construction.

The wildlife? This quarry pales in comparison to the monster that is Interstate 15. 98% of the damage has already been done. If you think about this, the area disturbed is equal to one of the smaller tracts of houses that get built by the hundreds in Temecula. No one complains about them. The quarry is simply no big deal and is needed. Why am I the only one that sees that?

observe this, the state mining and geology report for the "lead agency" on this site will be Riverside county .google the SMGB (state mining and geology board ) take a look at Riverside County performance review in the past..the over-site ,regulators, inspections and compliance for this type of mining is in the lowest 10 percent.. In other wods , a flunking grade in all areas. Your arguement of I -15 is weak to poor. DOT , Cal Trans, state and federal compliance reigns supreme. Mining compliance is relegated to one field inspector and compliance reports are mailed in once a year by the contractor. While we're on that subject, Granite Corp has a terrible record .Check out how FEMA took them to court in both Katrina and San Diego.note; if approved, it will still be mining in 75 years

Close the quarry, erect fifty wind turbines in it's place. Than twenty or so cellular towers, that should make everyone happy.

"observant" says I-15 has done all the damage to be done to wildlife. Not so observant. Try observing some books on wildlife behavior and you'll learn that just a narrow 'wildlife corridor' can make all the difference in the continued survival of wildlife in an area - particularly larger wildlife like deer, cougars etc. The wildlife is stressed now. But a quarry could just pound the last nail into the coffin of wildlife in the Santa Margarita.

As for jobs. These kinds of plunder-the-earth projects hire the same bunch of nomadic roughnecks that worked similar "projects" around the country - sprinkled with a goodly portion of cheap immigrant labor to do all the dangerous work.

Also, I agree with another that most of the traffic will not be serving local needs. The trucks will be outbound to roads and parking lots in San Diego, San B'do, Riverside etc.