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  County Acres Lost  
  Atascosa 1,700  
  Bastrop 2,800  
  Bell 7,300  
  Bexar 11,200  
  Bosque 5,800  
  Caldwell 4,700  
  Collin 8,400  
  Cooke 2,800  
  Dallas 2,200  
  Denton 4,100  
  Ellis 8,400  
  Falls 4,100  
  Fannin 2,900  
  Frio 7,800  
  Grayson 5,200  
  Guadalupe 7,500  
  Hill 5,200  
  Hood 3,900  
  Hunt 5,600  
  Johnson 5,500  
  Kaufman 5,800  
  La Salle 9,000  
  Lee 300  
  Limestone 1,500  
  McLennan 8,400  
  McMullen 5,400  
  Medina 3,200  
  Milam 4,100  
  Navarro 3,200  
  Parker 4,800  
  Rockwall 2,800  
  Somervell 1,600  
  Tarrant 3,200  
  Travis 7,500  
  Webb 6,500  
  Williamson 5,200  
  Wilson 6,200  
  Wise 3,700  

August 20, 2006

This information (courtesy of Hank Gilbert, independent candidate for Texas Commissioner of Agriculture) is a county-by-county listing of the number of acres that will be used by the Trans-Texas Corridor-35 when it is built. Rural Texas, especially our farm land and cattle country, will never be the same.

TTC-35 is to be built from Laredo to the Oklahoma border near Dallas-Ft. Worth to transfer truck traffic from Interstate 35. The first problem is that it is being built and owned for 50 years by a Spanish company. They will have the complete control (it will fly Spanish flags, I guess) for 50 years, and they set and collect the tolls.

I have calculated that at least 35 cemeteries are located within the 5,200 acres taken in Williamson County! The total number of Texas cemeteries in or near the footprint of this massive development will be in the hundreds. I am requesting anyone with information from their own county let us know the cemetery situation in their county as it relates to TTC-35.

With Texas love,
Karen R. Thompson
Karen R. Thompson


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