I can’t believe what the neighbors are saying about the Weber Pit. Maybe it’s because we, here near the Liberty rock pit, haven’t gotten anyone going up and down the Liberty Road stirring up people.

I have two houses closer to the Liberty rock pit than any of their houses near the Weber pit. The Braun house is 930 feet from the blast area. Mine is 630 feet from the Liberty pit. Richard Ball is 1,025 feet from the center of the Weber pit. There are five houses closer than Mrs. Wilson’s. She might be closer to the driveway but not to the blasting area of Weber pit.

I asked my son, a licensed surveyor, to give me an aerial photo showing distances to nearby houses for both rock pits mentioned above for comparison. In fact he has a house as close to the Liberty pit as Richard Ball is to the Weber pit. He has had no damage.

The hardest blast we ever felt was when the county blasted at the Wodtli pit that joins Liberty pit to the south. They used 6-inch diameter holes where the Emmerts have never used more than 31/2-inch diameter holes.