Letter: Resident upset at public works for allowing seismic testing

I cannot believe the San Benito Public Works Department gave permission to a company to do seismic testing all along our county roads and then allowed them to begin pounding the ground with huge trucks. The pounding was so powerful that windows rattled and almost shattered. Someone was hiking along the road and they said it was so powerful that it could have knocked them down, but they saw her and stopped pounding until she went past the truck. The road bed was destroyed in some places. They told us they were testing for earthquake activity. The public works department gave permission without even investigating who this company was and what they were really doing. Perhaps they did know and just didn’t care! Big money talks. Shame on them for deceiving the taxpayers of this county who pay their salaries. They were really testing to see if they could extract oil and gas with a method called fracking. If this company is allowed to do this it will affect all of San Benito County.
My family has lived in this area of Aromas for over 100 years and I have never heard of such deception and lies before. What a beautiful place this was when they came. Rolling hills with oaks and a river that flowed year round. A river that could be used for swimming and boating. Hills that were not blasted away and denuded of trees.
The public works department’s job is to protect our property and make our roads and environment better.
Karen Medonca, Aromas