Pereira Pastures Creamery is in North Lubbock County, located off of a dirt road. After the recent rains, they said customers had trouble getting to the business because of the conditions of the roadway.
Albert Pereira is the owner of the dairy farm, and said he’s been contacting his county commissioner after the rain storms.
“We’ve always had issues with the road,” Pereira said. “We call on a regular basis when it gets really bad.”
The farm, located on County Road 2700, is a dirt road, and Pereira has been hoping to get it turned into a caliche road.
“They [the commissioner’s office] say ‘Yeah, yeah, we’ll put you on the list, we’ll see what we can do, we’ll see what we can do,’ and I’ve been on this list for nearly 3 years now,” Pereira said.
As EverythingLubbock.com was leaving the interview with Pereira, his county commissioner, Lorenzo ‘Bubba’ Sedeno, showed up to share some news with Pereira.
“This one will be taken care of next week, weather permitting,” Sedeno said.
According to Sedeno, the road should likely become a caliche road in the coming week. He said county crews have been working recently on some nearby neighborhoods, turning them from dirt into caliche as well.
Sedeno said in total, his district has 360 miles of county road and 320 of those miles are dirt roads. He said each year, each precinct gets to turn about five to seven miles of road into caliche.
“We look at the worst roads in Lubbock County, first of all, we want to take care of neighborhoods where school children are coming out,” Sedeno said.
“I am ecstatic. I thank all our customers who took the time to call in and voice their concerns and then, also for the commissioner for coming out and actually taking time out of his day to come out and address it personally, I mean, it’s fantastic, we’re very, very happy with it,” Pereira said after hearing the news from Sedeno.
“It hasn’t really sunken in yet, but yes, ecstatic, it’s a huge weight taken off of us,” Pereira added. ” We feel so burdened by having our customers having to come out when weathers like that and having damage to their vehicles, and that type of thing, here they’re trying to support us and take care of us, and then it’s an added cost to them.”
