Environmental complaint received 2022-10-10 16:30:00
Source: Stanton Springs
Source location: Social Circle , Georgia
Complaint location: [Not entered]

Yesterday seems to have been the first big day of major work on the Rivian site, particularly in the Morgan County portion.  Apparently, the self-reporting responsibility and the Walton County monitoring responsibility isn’t working to well.  We have reports from residents and passersby of huge dust clouds, causing breathing problems, eye irritation, dirt and dust within homes and on vehicles, filthy swimming pools.  One person contacted me and said the horses at a horse farm on 278, adjacent to the project, were grazing in one of these dust clouds.  This has all come from the huge clouds of dirt, dust, dried grass and hay that is in the air.  Apparently they have equipment scraping the ground, loading the earth into dump trucks and hauling it to one spot elsewhere on the property where it is being dumped.  (When we get the rain that is predicted for next week there will be a huge mud pile)

Please address this problem this morning or today and/or tell us what else to do.  Should we be contacting anybody else?

Thank you,
JoEllen Artz