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San Joaquin County Community Development Department 1810 E. Hazelton Avenue Stockton, CA 95205-3163 Attn: Mr, John Funderburg Dear Mr. Funderburg: My wife & I are the property owners and residents at 26546 East River Road, Escalon, CA 95320, located in the area of the Munn & Perkins gravel processing facility. My property is located approximately 1500 feet from the facility, and is subjected to extensive disturbances during operation. During daytime hours, the facility produces constant industrial noises including the sound of conveyers, trucks coming in & out of the facility, banging from tailgates, backup beeping, and general noise throughout the day. The daytime noise recently has become MUCH more pronounced, so I walked over to the plant, and noticed they recently re-graded their property to be much higher on the side closer to us, and removed a dirt berm that used to be between us and the facility. During recent night operations, my family and I were subjected to oppressive noise from trucks and heavy equipment operating throughout the night. It was impossible to sleep, regardless of the fact we closed our windows which we normally used to keep open at night to cool our house down. The noise continually woke us up from our sleep on nights which they operated, and many times it was impossible to fall back asleep. Trucks would pass by our driveway and not only make noise, but emit a foul asphalt odor that would linger long after a truck had passed. The odor would accumulate to the point it was uncomfortable to stand outside and breath, again forcing us to close our windows we normally would have had open. Further, after browsing the EIR (I do NOT have the money to hire an attorney to represent me and review the whole document, which is frustrating because I have learned that is part of the way entities hope to slip questionable projects through the system), I would like to make four points: TRAFFIC : there is a small section of passing lane on our part of river road,just west of the Munn & Perkins plant. When trucks are hauling out of that facility, cars following west bound on River Road just cannot wait to pass the trucks. Many times vehicles come by two wide in front of our driveway (a truck in the west bound lane, and a passing vehicle also heading west in the east bound lane). This is a very dangerous condition when it just involves cars (River Road is an alternate commute route, no getting around it), but when slower moving trucks are involved, especially during night time operations, it is absolutely unsafe even trying to get out of my driveway at times.