Residents challenge Prince George's over concrete plant - washingtonpost.com

With an asphalt plant, a recycling transfer station and a clay-mining operation down the street from his home, Thurman Jones Jr. hears dump trucks in his sleep. He sees dust on his car. And he occasionally smells an indescribable stench near the community center.

If that weren't enough, the Prince George's County District Council voted last year to allow a developer to build a concrete plant a block away from Jones's home in an unincorporated area known as Cedar Heights, a small working-class community just outside Fairmount Heights and Cheverly.

"It is just overwhelming that they keep compounding the problems in this African American community with these negative facilities," Jones said. "It's really devastating."