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® North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission
512 N. Salisbury Street, Raleigh, North Carolina 27604-1188, 919-733-3391
Charles R. Fullwood, Executive Director
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From: Owen F. Anderson, Piedmont Region Coordinator
Habitat Conservation Program
Date: January 20, 1998
Subject: 201 Plan and Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Eastside Wastewater
Treatment Plant Expansion and Upgrade, Guilford County, North Carolina.
Richland Creek, Cape Fear Basin
Biologists with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission have reviewed the
subject 201 plan and EA. Our comments are provided in accordance with certain provisions of
the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (48 Stat. 401, as amended; 16 U.S.C. 661-667d), Section
201 of the Clean Water Act, and the North Carolina Environmental Policy Act (G.S. 113A-1
through 113-A10; 1 NCAC 25).
This project is interrelated with the proposed Randleman Reservoir project and the water
treatment plant. The expansion of this plant has the potential to have significant adverse impacts
on the water quality in Randleman Reservoir to the point that water quality standards may not be
met.
We have expressed previously concerns about the adverse impacts this project would
have on water quality as it relates to fishery management in Randleman Lake. We recommended
previously that emergency generators be installed to operate all treatment works in the event of a
power outage.
We still have the remaining concerns on this project:
1. The 201 plan does not evaluate emergency power supply alternatives. but only states that
dual feed power will be provided and that on-site standby power is not warranted because
of the limited likelihood of a power interruption on both lines. There are no data offered