Concerned residents of the Village of Webberville, or VOW, continue their fight to block more strip-mining in their community.
The population of the community may be small in number, but they're big on raising money and trying to put a stop to mining plans.
Webberville is a rural area with a small population and has prime land for sand and gravel with strip mines and gravel pits on either end of the city.
A Beaumont corporation, Trinity Materials, plans to build more strip mines in four large fields along FM 969 and the Colorado River.
"The red represents where the strip mining operations are going to be, we're they're going to actually destroy and destruct the heart of the community," said Hector Gonzales, vice chair of VOW committee.
To try and prevent this, the Village of Webberville continues to cook up money through fundraising efforts.
Community members have health and safety concerns.
For example, Gonzales said the Farm to Market Road 969 wasn't designed for the nearly 300 gravel trucks needed for the project.
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Webberville continues strip mine battle
The Village of Webberville continues to fight against strip mine development.
 
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Other safety concerns include water issues.
"Their machinery and movement in and out of the area leave contaminants in the water," said Ken Moon, co-chair of VOW.
Raising concerns that those contaminants will trickle down into nearby wells and the community's drinking water.
The fear is that the mine could operate anywhere from 25 to 100 years.
"We're not sure when they're going to start digging. They could at any time because the fact that it's loosely regulated," Gonzales said.
Gonzales said it's surprising how many people in the area still aren't aware of the mining plans.
VOW is determined to try even harder to publicize their campaign to shut out any proposed mines.
VOW says approximately 100 people went to Sunday's fundraiser and contributed more than $1,000.
