A.D. Ibarra

-Eagle Pass

Commissioner of Precinct 2 Daniela Aleman will be attending a workshop this week in order to somehow reduce the incredible amount of discarded tires which has been stockpiling for many years.

Should one go out to the isolated patch of land adjacent to the Maverick County Fairgrounds, you would be shocked as the amount of tires found there.

Commissioner Aleman has a crew of workers from her precinct, Precinct 1 and Precinct 3 working on organizing the massive mountain of rubber which was piling higher and higher every day.

"If we wanted to send them off to be disposed of, it would cost the county approximately $1,500.00 for every 800 tires," stated Aleman, "We have anywhere from 20,000 to 50,000 tires out there, do the math.  We can save the county $30,000 to $60,000 by processing them ourselves."

Commissioner Aleman informed The News Gram of the need to establish a more efficient system which won't be as expensive.

"First of all, a system must be in place in order for us to get the necessary help to reduce the amount of unwanted tires in our county, stated the commissioner, "We must create a system that will provide the accountability in order to meet TCEQ (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality) requirements."

"If we had the stack the way it was, TCEQ would fine us $10,000.00 a day because it would've been considered an illegal stockpile," as the stockpile was over twenty feet tall at one point before they started separating the tires by category.

What is being considered is a manifest system, a way to calculate how many tires are coming into the area, a document which determines tonnage for record keeping.